Quotes from Phillip Jennings

politically incorrect—another word for honest

No war in American history is in greater need of a politically incorrect—another word for honest—treatment than the Vietnam War, because the people who misreported the war, hammered vile lies about it into our national consciousness, and now tout its supposed "lessons" are the very same people who created "political correctness" in the first place.

miscalculation of tragic proportions,

urged upon us by those who have already broken their own pledges under the Agreement they now seek to enforce.

The Communists offer them another kind of revolution, glittering and seductive in its superficial appeal.

It is only in winter that you can tell which trees are evergreen.

noble cause after all; maybe we were fighting against a cruel and vicious enemy that was in the service of an aggressive, hateful ideology with designs on enslaving other peoples and other countries; maybe—just maybe—we were doing the right thing.

Defeat: The Liberal Way of War After studying hundreds of books written by liberals about the Vietnam War, you realize that their prime objection to this war, waged by liberal presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson, was that it was just too hard to win. They never stepped back and recognized that what made it hard to win was fighting it the liberal way of limited war where you tell the enemy your limits;

of graduated response where your carefully calibrate what size of stick is suitable for each enemy infraction—but agree to put the stick away if he'll agree to negotiate; and of general fecklessness compared to an enemy that was willing to destroy their country in order to communize it. Had

Nh? Napoleon ?ã nói, chi?n tranh v?n d? r?t ?áng s?, cho nên nó nên ???c thúc ??y càng máu tanh càng t?t ?? ch?m d?t nhanh nh?t có th?.

Nixon applied the stick, authorizing Operation Menu, the bombing of Cambodia, targeting the North Vietnamese supply sanctuaries located along the border.

Nixon's view was that the operation was soundly based in International Law, specifically the Hague Convention of 1907: "A neutral country has the obligation not to allow its territory to be used by a belligerent. If the neutral country is unwilling or unable to prevent this, the other belligerent has the right to take appropriate counteraction."22

Not only had Congress passed the Case-Church Amendment, but in November 1973, over Nixon's veto, Congress enacted the War Powers Resolution. It required that the president obtain congressional support within ninety days of sending American troops abroad for military action. The North Vietnamese knew that no such support would be forthcoming.

Some might have opposed the war because they were isolationists. But America's bipartisan, postwar consensus was that we had a responsibility to contain Communist aggression. In any event, the anti-war protesters liked to assume they represented a higher morality, and it would be hard to square isolationism with idealism. At best, one might call it naïve; at worst, short-sighted and selfish.

While evil can never be banished from the human heart and mistakes can never be banished from human behavior, such outrages were rare on the American side. They were not rare—they were policy—on the Communist side. Ignoring that fact only highlights the ignorance and bias of the anti-war movement.

Hanoi was cruel to its own citizens; it was cruel to our citizens; law and human rights are bourgeois concepts for which the Communists in Hanoi had little respect.