Did American politicans lose faith in Vietnam Vets?

Question:Dear readers and veterans.

I was watching a documentry on the Vietnam war a few weeks ago.

Some of the veterans that were interviewed felt that the America gave up on them and that the war could have been won if Johnson and Nixon would have showed more support.

Some also fel that LBJ betrayed them wen he got them so far into the war and decided not to return to office. The say they felt abadoned becuase LBJ left office and it was like he had given up on them winning the war

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Dear readers and veterans.

I was watching a documentry on the Vietnam war a few weeks ago.

Some of the veterans that were interviewed felt that the America gave up on them and that the war could have been won if Johnson and Nixon would have showed more support.

Some also fel that LBJ betrayed them wen he got them so far into the war and decided not to return to office. The say they felt abadoned becuase LBJ left office and it was like he had given up on them winning the war

None of that is true, and I seriously doubt that the vets were real vets. Why would they feel betrayed just because Johnson didn't run again for office? He got really unpopular when he didn't try to stop the war and knew he would lose. Americans didn't lose faith in the soldiers for not winning. It was Zionist creatures like Kissinger that kept the war going for as long as possible, like the Bush criminals are doing now, so bankers like the Federal Reserve Board, like what is happening now, could make a huge amount of money. When the draft was getting American boys killed for no moral or logical reason, just like now, people desperately wanted it stopped, just like now, and Americans looked at American soldiers not as heroes but as traitors for fighting a war that wasn't a war and just following orders from a morally bankrupt command line coming from Washington. Soldiers first have a responsibility to themselves and their own personal integrity and ethics and not to anyone else, not their country, not their religion, not anything.

Im sitting in Ho Chi Minh city as I write this, having wandered around all the old sites, tunnels, and having done my research. It was an un-winnable war, at least conventionally. Admittedly it probably did stop the spread of communism in south east asia, simply because everyone else saw what a messy bloodbath ensued when you proclaimed yourself communist. To that end the Americans won, however in terms of occupation, control, management of infrastructure, and casualties etc it was an appalling mess. Discipline in the army was discintigrating, drug habits were common, and its never good to be tripping out when you're a 6 foot marine with an M16 being shot at in a disorienting, confusing battleground full of chaos, blood and death, where you can hardly see 5 yards through the dense foliage. The Viets were good at geurilla warfare. They beat the Mongols, the Chinese, the French, the Chinese again..... this is a people who will deliver a fridge or a 4 by 4 cage of scorpions on the back of a moped. They dont understand the concept of failure.

There was no way of winning that war. Check out the documentray "Fog of War" and even McNamara admits it was a bad deal. The US had to pull out, too many lives were being loss. I don't think there were too many Vets that wanted to go on.