Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "France Starts the Vietnam War - W2W 05 - Q2 1946" video.

  1. The Brits and the French broke the world during and after the two world wars. Granted, America didn't help itself by stepping in a bunch of it and taking the blame for the effort, and we did make some bad calls of our own during the Cold War, but we weren't built to run an empire anyway. And it showed. But I still pin most of it on the Brits and French. I like the Beatles and mayonnaise, and Winnie Churchill, as jacked as some of his 19th Century beliefs were did stay in the fight and saved the west from the tyranny of the Nazi jackboots, but beyond that I don't have much time for either place. I used to visit Europe a lot. Those days are behind me. Wouldn't go there now. Why NATO is still a thing is beyond me, but I digress. Of all the screwed up situations though Vietnam ranks pretty high on the you-shoulda-stayed-the-hell-out-of-there list. The thing is, everyone from Truman through Nixon knew that, and we went in anyway, inch, by inch, then yard by yard, and eventually mile, by mile. So sad. But, like I say, nothing beats a good sandwich with mayo and the White Album is pretty cool. So there's that I suppose.
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