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| Michael Connelly |
For years,
the liberals in this country have used their control of most of the main stream
media and our education system to push their leftist political agenda with the
ultimate goal of destroying our Constitutional Republic and replacing it with
their version of the socialist/communist paradise. They have perpetuated what I
call “liberal myths” that are used to alter what Americans know and believe
about our heritage and our form of government.
Unfortunately,
they have been very successful, and while their myths are based on
misinformation and outright lies many of them have become enshrined in our
culture where they are presented as facts and taught to our children in their
textbooks. Any attempts to refute these so called facts are deemed “politically
incorrect” and must be shut own.
In an
attempt to counter this, I am going to do a series of articles on my blog
exposing the liberal myths and providing the truth. Ultimately I hope to turn
this into a book. Below is the first article and it deals with the myths about
the war in Vietnam.
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Myth 1: The Vietnam
War was a civil war.
Vietnam was
formerly known as Indochina because it was controlled for centuries by the
Chinese, then the French, the Japanese, and then the French again. At the end
of WWII the influence of the communists was strong in the northern part of the
area, and capitalism was the choice in the south. In 1954 a treaty called the
Geneva accords established North and South Vietnam as separate countries. The
truth is that there had never been a single Vietnam as a nation.
A civil war
is defined a as war between people in the same country. The Vietnam War started
when the North Vietnamese supported an insurgency in the south, and eventually
became a full scale invasion of South Vietnam by the North Vietnam Army. The
United States had historically provided economic and military support of the
south. This was not a civil war, but a war between the communist north and the
democratic south with the north being supported by the communist governments of
the Soviet Union, Chins, and North Korea.
Myth 2: The
vast majority of American soldiers who fought in Vietnam were blacks or poorly
educated whites who were drafted. Black soldiers were used as cannon fodder,
and had a much higher percentage of casualties then white soldiers
In fact,
2/3% of the American soldiers who fought in Vietnam were volunteers. 79% of
them had a high school education or better. The number of black soldiers who
served in Vietnam was roughly 12% of the total, almost identical to the
percentage of black citizens in the United States at the time. 86% of the
American casualties were Caucasians. The casualty rate of the black soldiers
was around 12%, the same percentage of the blacks who served
Myth 3: The
1968 Tet offensive was a major victory for the Viet Cong and the North
Vietnamese Communists.
This is a
myth created entirely by the mainstream American media that was supporting the
anti-war movement in the United States. The Tet offensive was launched by the
communist North Vietnam Army (NVA) using the Viet Cong forces in the south and
the NVA. Because of the element of surprise there were some initial small
victories for the communists, but the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces quickly
rallied and in the end it was a disastrous defeat for the communists. The Viet
Cong were virtually destroyed as a fighting force and the North Vietnamese army
had 45,000 men killed. It was a major victory for the U.S. military and the
South Vietnamese army but was reported by the American media as a victory for
the enemy,
Myth 4: The
U.S. military lost the war in Vietnam.
The fact is
that the U.S. military never lost a significant battle during the Vietnam War.
When American troops were withdrawn the North Vietnamese Army had been soundly
defeated and forced back across the border between North and South Vietnam.
However, the U.S. Congress decided to make a political decision to terminate
the funding that had been pledged to the South Vietnamese army. The equipment,
weapons and ammunition that were a part of this pledge were cut off.
When the
communist government of North Vietnam learned of this it launched an all out
invasion of the south and soon overwhelmed the South Vietnamese army leading to
the fall of Saigon in 1975. In other words, it was the politicians in
Washington D.C. , not the U.S. military that lost the war.
Myth 5: The
people of South Vietnam benefited greatly from the outcome of the war.
