October 22, 2026
Iran is not Vietnam
Timothy Birdnow
Oh for crying out loud!
This is just defeatism.
Iran isn't even remotely like Vietnam, which was an uprising by the people of South Vietnam fomented by North Vietnam - a country we refused to actually fight in that war. It was fought using some of the dirtiest guerilla tactics imaginable and it was waged against ground troops on patrol who were playing hide and seek with the terrorists rather than doing a systematic destruction of their bases of operation and their supply chains.
Even then we WON Vietnam, as declassified North Vietnamese communiques prove. They were utterly shocked after Tet; we had obliterated them, but Walter Cronkite went on the air and declared solemnly "this war is lost" and America believed that leftist creep. We pulled out at the moment of victory and the Vietcong knew they had lost and were simply astonished we gave up.
The article does not suggest strategies for victory but merely rehashes the Vietnam saga and mentions how the popular support wasn't there, nor the government messaging.
The reality is the media supported America in WWII, less so in Korea, and turned against us in Vietnam, where it has been ever since. But there were ways for the government to compel proper reporting, and they could have simply had a blackout on information from the battle fields, forcing the media to get their information second hand or from the government. But Johnson and later Nixon didn't do it.
The media success in turning this war into a disaster emboldened them to take out Richard Nixon and they've strutted around ever since, believing themselves king slayers and the true rulers of America. Nobody has of yet disabused them of that notion.
At any rate the corporate media wants to Vietnamize this war but there are too many other sources of information now, and the American People are wise to the fact the media lies. Trump can go on Truth Social and give out information about how this war is going; he need not filter it through the media.
I fear this was a bit of a dud, more an effort to reminisce about Vietnam than actually look at the realities of the current war.
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People thought Cronkite was some kind of friggin' oracle, but in reality he was just another liberal puke, much in the same vein as Dan Rather.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at October 22, 2026 11:45 PM (LsX8Y)
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Yes he was Dana. But he had that grandfatherly way about him that made people trust him when he was just a leftist activist pretending to be a journalist. Sadly his word carried too much weight and so when he said Vietnam was lost the public believed it was lost.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at October 23, 2026 07:02 AM (oflqW)
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