Reply #37: Jane makes a convenient scapegoat [View All]

for those who believe she was the reason the United States didn't plant an American flag on the Hanoi Courthouse steps. Fact is, it was a no win situation, in the traditional sense. We were on the wrong side of History and morality. How does this sound? Ho Chi Minh was a ruthless dictator who enslaved his people. The United States was there to make the Vietnamese free and spread democracy.
We were there because we believed there was more oil under the Tonkin Gulf than under Saudi sand. Remember what happened when we pulled out our combat troops in 73, the oil shortage.
The real traitors, and they still are, the scumbags who profiteer on the blood, sweat, tears and toil of the combat soldier.
Democracy is never imposed at gunpoint, occupation is.