Prager University: How the Vietnam War Was Won and Lost

Most of what you believe about the Vietnam War isn't true. In this second installment of Prager University's "Wisdom of the Masters" series, foreign policy expert, Bruce Herschensohn, explains how the U.S. Congress turned victory in the Vietnam War into defeat.

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[tabrettologist]

Yay! Thanks Democrats for being partisan lunatics. The blood of those dead Vietnamese is on your party's hands.

[kostaad]

Democrats always brought nothing but destruction under the flag of peace, righteousness and false pity. Nothing worse in the world than the uber politically correct left driving the country.

[apk769]

@mr82769

You really are despicable when you say the humanitarian costs were a zero sum game. More people died in the year after the fall of saigon than the previous 10 years combined. The fall of Saigon also led to the genocide in Cambodia which killed 1/3 of that population. People like you make me sick.

[apk769]

@mr82769

Is typical of people who have a simplistic view of Pinochet etc. Allende in Chile was a KGB asset. Pinochet willingly stepped down in a plebsicite in 1988 losing 55-45. The 45 percent who voted to have Pinochet stay in power was higher than the percentage that voted for Allende in 1970. Pinochet saved Chile from becoming another Cuba. Are you really comparing Pinochet's rule to Stalin and other Communists? You are insane.

[lecagot2]

Great vid. I still feel guilt over my opposition to the war in my youth.

[MonkeySpuzz]

@tabrettologist Demopublicans or Republicrats, it's all the same; 95% of them are bought and paid for. The rest are there to give us the illusion that this country can be saved! JFK wanted to start pulling people out of Vietnam in the early '60's but the Military Industrial Complex is too powerful and too much profit is in war for the

Money Changers! Read Gen. Smedley Butler's War is a Racket, and listen to DDE's parting address warning us of such!!

[jmcnally17]

This video accurately reflects what many of us who served in the military during Viet Nam know to be true regarding the outcome of the war. For purely partisan political reasons, the Democrat Party turned victory into defeat. We never lost a major engagement; militarily, we defeated the North Vietnamese. I have nothing but contempt for those politicians responsible for betraying those who fought and died there.

JimmyMack, Chicago

Veteran, 82nd Airborne Division

33 year member, Chicago Fire Dept

[mukome]

Prager was born in 1948. He would have been the perfect age to sign up for the Vietnam War. But he didn't.

[MrShoeguy]

The problem is Dennis Prager.

Left to their own devices the democrats show what monsters they are, but people like Dennis Prager and Hugh Hewitt are always lying to defend them.

"There are many beautiful people on the left" is one lie he has repeated hundreds of times and anybody who listens to him can name plenty more.

Prager can hardly form a sentence w/o interrupting himself to protect democrats from earning their own reputation.

[manfred500]

Nixon turned a democratic, marxist Chile into a pro-american dictatorship, too.

[mr82769]

@Sp00ny1985 How many civilians have died in Iraq or Afghanistan? And again, the US supported dictators in South America did quite the job too. Its not only the communists who have been brutal.

[Sp00ny1985]

@mr82769 Yes, if only all of Korea was like the utopia that is North Korea. Yes, more Vietnamese would have died and in no way is that a good thing. But look at the numbers man, at the very least 250,000 innocents were killed by the new brutal Communist regime. And this is after we had already essentially won the war. I am angry that my country could be cowed in to being so cowardly as to condemn those people to death. I am sorry, but your comment is tremendously foolish.