What nonsense

RN turns 100.

John Gizzi writes,

Although many wish he had simply resumed the bombing of North Vietnam in 1969 that Lyndon Johnson had stopped in 1968, Nixon did so four years later and brought the U.S. role in the Vietnam War to an honorable ending.

South Vietnam remained free and “Vietnamization”—the training of South Vietnamese troops to defend their country without foreign assistance—was working.

Only after Nixon was driven from office and the Democratic-controlled Congress cut off aid to the embattled country did the Communist North finally triumph.

The “domino theory” that Nixon and others warned of became the domino fact, as Cambodia and much of Southeast Asia fell to Communism and became a giant gulag in the 1970s.

Vietnamization was a fig leaf to hide our failure and abandonment of the lost cause that was the South.

Had it not been a failure the South would not have promptly fallen when the Democrats did in fact end foreign (our) assistance.

Cambodia went under as an unanticipated consequence of Nixon's resumption of the bombing - though that does not mean it was his fault, as liberals had it.

And South Vietnam itself fell, of course.

But that was all.

And so what?