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We provided the corrupt and inept Government of South Vietnam with billions of dollars in military aid along with 60,000 US deaths. They used this aid to enrich themselves and their friends.Nixon deserves part of the blame for the loss of Vietnam, but the Democrats deserve much more blame. Nixon's peace deal was a disaster, but it ended in disaster because the Democrats would not honor our pledge to South Vietnam to provide bombing and supply support if North Vietnam invaded again.
The real blame goes to Truman who sold out Vietnam to the French after WWII. Rather than supporting a free and Democratic Vietnam, Truman supported France reestablishing it’s Colonial Empire. And people wonder why Vietnam turned to Communism.
Regardless of what Truman did in the late 1940s regarding Vietnam, South Vietnam would be much like South Korea today if the Democrats had not refused to provide South Vietnam with the bombing and material support that we had promised them if North Vietnam invaded again. But the treasonous Democrats took advantage of the Watergate scandal to break our pledge of support to South Vietnam and allowed the Communists to overrun the country.
When left to fight on their own, they were incapable of mounting a basic defense. We never should have been there in the first place.