New Book on the Vietnam War

[mikegriffith1]

For those who might be interested, my new book on the Vietnam War has been published. It is titled Reclaiming the Vietnam War: The Betrayal of South Vietnam. It has been endorsed by Dr. Mark Moyar and Bill Laurie.

My book examines such as issues as the reign of terror imposed by the Communists on the South Vietnamese after the war, the Tet Offensive, the "decent interval," the 1954 Geneva Accords, the needless restrictions placed on our combat operations, the myth the war was unwinnable, collaboration between the anti-war movement and the North Vietnamese, President Ngo Dinh Diem's real record, and North Vietnam's failure to return all American POWs.

The book is available on Amazon as a paperback, a Kindle book, and an audio book.



Reclaiming the Vietnam War

 

[rightwinger]

Vietnam did better under the Communists than they did under French and US occupation

We killed 2 million of them to keep them from turning Communist

AI Overview
Learn more

In 2023, Vietnam's economy ranked 34th globally by nominal GDP, with a value of $430 billion. By purchasing power parity (PPP), it ranked 26th in the world, indicating a significant economic size when considering the cost of living. Vietnam is also the 4th largest economy in ASEAN.

 

[mikegriffith1]

Vietnam did better under the Communists than they did under French and US occupation

Good grief. Not the Vietnam on this planet. Yikes. You might want to read the Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International reports on the brutal post-war regime of Communist Vietnam.

Do you have any idea about the reign of terror that the Communists imposed on South Vietnam after the war? Heard of the "boat people"? Heard of the 800,000-plus South Vietnamese who were sent to concentration camps after the war? How about the 60,000-plus executions of South Vietnamese after the war.

I document these facts in my book.

We killed 2 million of them to keep them from turning Communist

Yuck. Is there no far-left myth that you don't peddle? No, we did not kill 2 million South Vietnamese. That is wartime Communist propaganda that the far left still peddles.

 

[rightwinger]

Good grief. Not the Vietnam on this planet. Yikes. You might want to read the Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International reports on the brutal post-war regime of Communist Vietnam.

Do you have any idea about the reign of terror that the Communists imposed on South Vietnam after the war? Heard of the "boat people"? Heard of the 800,000-plus South Vietnamese who were sent to concentration camps after the war? How about the 60,000-plus executions of South Vietnamese after the war.

I document these facts in my book.


Yuck. Is there no far-left myth that you don't peddle? No, we did not kill 2 million South Vietnamese. That is wartime Communist propaganda that the far left still peddles.

In 1940, Germany conquered France and France abandoned Vietnam to Japanese occupation.
The Vietnamese fought the Japanese on their own.

After Japan surrendered in 1945, Ho Chi Minh begged the allies for their independence. They had earned it. The US supported French colonialism that led to a revolt in the 1950s.
When France lost…we stepped in and agreed to a North and a South with free elections.

When it became clear that the Communists would win that election, we refused to conduct them.

We forced a war that cost 2 million lives….to “protect them from communism”

Vietnam has done better under Communism than they did under colonial control.

 

[mikegriffith1]

After Japan surrendered in 1945, Ho Chi Minh begged the allies for their independence. They had earned it. The US supported French colonialism that led to a revolt in the 1950s.

The Communist murderer Ho Chi Minh was not even the most popular Vietnamese nationalist. Huynh Phu So, the charismatic founder of the Hoa Hao and of the Vietnamese Democratic Socialist Party, had more followers than did Ho Chi Minh. However, the Communists murdered Huynh Phu So in April 1947.

When France lost…we stepped in and agreed to a North and a South with free elections.

Umm, no, we did not sign the Geneva Accords, largely because the Communists refused to hold elections under UN supervision. They wanted elections with their own handpicked "observers." South Vietnam did not sign the accords for the same reason.

When it became clear that the Communists would win that election, we refused to conduct them.

This Communist talking point was debunked back almost as soon as it was peddled. The Communists would never have won a fair election, and they would not allow a fair election. This was why North Vietnam refused to allow UN supervision of the election, and that's why South Vietnam and the U.S. opposed the election. Even JFK and England recognized this.

We forced a war that cost 2 million lives….to “protect them from communism”

Uh, no, North Vietnam forced the war by invading South Vietnam. There was no war until North Vietnam started trying to topple South Vietnam.

Vietnam has done better under Communism than they did under colonial control.

This is obscenely erroneous and inhumane. It is amazing that anyone in 2025 would get on a public board and make such a ludicrous statement.

When the Communists won, they proceeded to rape South Vietnam, sending nearly 1 million people to concentration camps ("reeducation camps") (where the death rate was at least 5%), executing over 60,000 people, banning all private schools, taking over all TV stations and newspapers, and confiscating tens of billions of dollars' worth of private property.

Millions of people fled Vietnam after the Communists took control. Again, have you heard of the "boat people"? Google it. Vietnam remains one of the most repressive regimes on the planet, even per Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

For those who might be interested, my new book on the Vietnam War has been published. It is titled Reclaiming the Vietnam War: The Betrayal of South Vietnam. It has been endorsed by Dr. Mark Moyar and Bill Laurie.

My book examines such as issues as the reign of terror imposed by the Communists on the South Vietnamese after the war, the Tet Offensive, the "decent interval," the 1954 Geneva Accords, the needless restrictions placed on our combat operations, the myth the war was unwinnable, collaboration between the anti-war movement and the North Vietnamese, President Ngo Dinh Diem's real record, and North Vietnam's failure to return all American POWs.

The book is available on Amazon as a paperback, a Kindle book, and an audio book.



Reclaiming the Vietnam War

The Boat People Were Chickenhawks

The South Vietnamese were cowards, crooks, and collaborators. Believing that our mission was to save such human debris was race treason, which ties in with LBJ's policy towards Afram savages.

The tyranny that rules us want us to sympathize with cowards because that leads to empathizing with our own cowardice, which is only way that tyranny survives here.

Our fathers didn't invade Normandy to save the gutless French, so the Vietnam War's focus should have been strictly about destroying North Vietnam, with no thought at all about the worthless South Vietnamese, who only got in our way and prevented victory.

 

[mikegriffith1]

The Boat People Were Chickenhawks

The South Vietnamese were cowards, crooks, and collaborators. Believing that our mission was to save such human debris was race treason, which ties in with LBJ's policy towards Afram savages.

The tyranny that rules us want us to sympathize with cowards because that leads to empathizing with our own cowardice, which is only way that tyranny survives here.

Our fathers didn't invade Normandy to save the gutless French, so the Vietnam War's focus should have been strictly about destroying North Vietnam, with no thought at all about the worthless South Vietnamese, who only got in our way and prevented victory.

If you read my book, you'll learn that the South Vietnamese were not cowards or collaborators, not at all. The South Vietnamese army fought well in the majority of cases. South Vietnam was slowly but surely developing into a stable democracy, especially by Asian standards.