Who do we blame? LBJ set up the Gulf of Tonkin "crisis" and the left supported it because LBJ used to be on JFK's team. Johnson set up a new way of waging war. Americans would fly into battle on helicopters, beat the shit out of the enemy and then turn over the hard won real estate the next day. Americans would learn to drink beer and relax for a while and then fly into battle and what was left would drink beer until the next battle until their year was up and the next group of recruits would do the same thing. When the US finally defeated the enemy after Tet another liberal voice entered the fray. Walter Cronkite flew to VietNam, put on a helmet and flack vest and pretended he was in combat for the cameras and pronounced the Tet victory as a "stalemate". Cronkite told Americans that the US didn't win a victory after all. After Cronkite's "scoop" the VC won a propaganda victory and LBJ tearfully told Americans that he quit and would not run for another term just when Americans needed leadership. Chaos reigned when Nixon was elected .
