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Did We Just Win the Vietnam War?

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Posted By: smaricic, 11/1/2025 12:36:31 PM

Over 50 years since America’s withdrawal from the Vietnam War, history has legitimized and vindicated its sacrifice in the Vietnam War.While few Americans have noticed, Vietnam’s new General Secretary of the Communist Party, To Lam, has replaced Marxist-Leninism as the Party’s governing ideology with something more authentically Vietnamese: Truong Ton Dan Toc, or “Vietnamese nationalism.”   That is a bombshell. Hanoi has just abandoned its Communist ideology, which governed it since 1954 and sustained it in its wars against the United States and its ally South Vietnam, and with its Communist neighbors, Cambodia and the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

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Intelligent Vietnamese, in the US and in Vietnam, know that our soldiers fought for their freedom. If the USA stays true to our mission, we will win other wars we thought lost. We, too, have the time.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: MrDeplorable 11/1/2025 1:13:48 PM (No. 2024654)
Folks, do you have any idea how HUGE this is? Vietnam vets, if you didn't know it before please understand it now: You are HEROES!!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: czechlist 11/1/2025 1:27:41 PM (No. 2024662)
Just the latest example that socialism doesn't work. I don't say communism because religion has always been a common part of the average Vietnamese culture.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: crashnburn 11/1/2025 1:34:23 PM (No. 2024669)
Good news. Too bad the Agitprop media will never mention this. I came of age during the Vietnamese War and missed the draft by a year. I knew we were fighting against Communism but don’t remember any one explicitly saying we were fighting for Vietnamese Nationalism. The anti-war protesters were mostly cowards because they stopped protesting when we left South Vietnam to fight alone. If they’d been truly anti-war they would have continued their protests. And, we mostly lost our resolve when Walter Cronkite lied about the state of the war. The US had just fought the Tet Offensive and defeated it. Bless his little heart, wherever he is.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Maggie2u 11/1/2025 2:10:13 PM (No. 2024685)
And just think, if some Vietnamese communists start a civil war to bring communism back, the democrats would fight in Congress to supply them with funds and guns.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: varkdriver 11/1/2025 4:05:48 PM (No. 2024716)
On behalf of Capt Lance Sijan (posthumous Medal of Honor as a POW in Hanoi), we Air Force types are pleased to hear this
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Timber Queen 11/1/2025 4:49:16 PM (No. 2024750)
Wow! This is incredible! I've already forwarded the article to TK, and after typing this comment will go to him and have him read it now. He served two tours in Vietnam, 65-66 & 67-68, volunteering for the second tour to take the place of fellow Marine for whom he had just stood as Best Man at his wedding. During his first tour he was the radio operator for his platoon...the guy who got to walk through the jungle with the antennae sticking up over his head. On his second tour he was in artillery. He was the driver for then Major John MacFarlane...who later became a victim in the Watergate investigations of President Nixon. TK had the opportunity many years ago to attend a conference in D.C. He telephoned "his" Major. Mrs. MacFarlane answered. TK identified himself and hoped he wasn't disturbing them. She said that he often receives calls from his men and always enjoys hearing from them. TK had a nice long talk with "his" Major. God bless all Vietnam Veterans, their families...and above all, the Vietnamese people in their quest for true freedom.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 11/1/2025 5:04:55 PM (No. 2024752)
This is a miraculous turn of events. Vietnam, of all places has seen the light. Keep in mind that most if not all of the country's government decision-makers today weren't even alive during the Vietnam War. But they understand their nationalism and who they are as a sovereign nation. What a difference 50 years makes. If only the same could happen in Korea.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: rikkitikki 11/1/2025 8:17:04 PM (No. 2024799)
Fantastic news! And another prime example of the failure of Marxism/Socialism...like we needed another one. The news is so good, in fact, that I fully expect China to view them as enemies, and become increasingly belligerent towards them, both in Gulf of Tonkin, the South China Sea, and along their northern, common border.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: petrichor 11/2/2025 6:36:23 AM (No. 2024923)
Well, I'm still not planning on marching in any parades. Still, nice to know.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Kafka2 11/2/2025 2:20:12 PM (No. 2025131)
I think this is trying to rewrite history. After the Japanese were defeated in WW2, the French wanted to reclaim Viet Nam as a French colony. After fighting to get rid of the Japanese occupation, they were not in the mood to accept a French occupation. So the Viet Kong fighters from WW2 now fought to rid themselves of the French re-occupation and the corrupt puppet government they set up. The French Foreign Legion fought them, but was defeated. Fearing that Viet Nam would fall to the communists President Kennedy sent military advisers to help the Viet Nam army and later President Johnson sent our military to fight. After several more years peace was declared. One Month later, the Viet Kong controlled all of Viet Nam. The US military faught bravely for Democracy in Viet Nam, but it was a war we could not win. They were fighting for their homeland and we were viewed as the foreign invader.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Kafka2 11/2/2025 3:40:53 PM (No. 2025148)
Although we did not win the war, it looks like we finally won the peace.
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