Analysis of Vietnam War Corruption

The actual reason why the Vietnam War was being

lost, it was literally corruption.

So what happened in Vietnam is the United States from

1965 to '72 had air

power blasting North Vietnam, but that air power

was having no effect on winning the war

because we have North Vietnam guerrillas going

into the villages in South Vietnam, and the

local villagers welcomed the VC in their village

because the village leaders were taking

two-thirds of the rice crop. And if you decide that

that's the way your government is gonna work,

you're vulnerable to guerrilla

warfare because this thing we call communism, it's not about reading a little

red book or Lenin or Mao. It's about food.

It's about rice in this case. It's about do

you get the benefits of your labor?

And guerrillas, they were making a deal, and the deal was this:

"We're gonna shoot the leaders of your village, and we're going to put in

power somebody we're gonna call a communist." And what's the communist gonna

do? They're gonna let you keep your rice.

That is how the guerrilla campaign was

winning the hearts and minds of the southern population in

South

Vietnam. Well, we finally figured that out, and the South

Vietnamese government, with our pressure, changed their policy.

And guess what happened to the guerrilla campaign?

It went out of business like that.

Yes.

Now, North Vietnam realizes the guerrilla

campaign is

over, and the North Vietnamese launch all

13 of their regular army divisions against the South.

And at first, our air force actually does a good job of

beating back

this regular army, but it's too late because the public,

after

eight solid years of nothing but body

bags coming back from Vietnam, the American people are jaded with

the war. Even success isn't good enough anymore.

So eventually, the Congress in the United States pulls

the

plug in 1974 'cause war is not just about

military action. You can have the best bombs hit

all the targets and lose the war.

Yes.

And it's because of the gap with politics.

If you don't understand the connection between the military

action and the politics of the problem, you're gonna lose, and you're

gonna lose big time