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The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War
by Phillip Jennings
No war in American history is so shrouded in obfuscation
and myth than the Vietnam War: "Vietnam" has entered into
our national memory as a byword for disaster, usually
accompanied by the word "quagmire," and the specter of the
war has haunted our foreign policy discussions ever since.
Left-leaning historians with a political agenda, aided and
abetted by the liberal media, have convinced the world that
for America, the Vietnam War was a tragic and dismal
failure. Liberal pundits and leftist professors have been
telling lies and getting away with it -- despite the fact
that the war was televised at the time and has been the
subject of innumerable books and studies.
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But now, in The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam
War, Phillip Jennings finally sets the record straight.
Jennings, who fought in Vietnam as a Marine pilot and later
as a pilot for the CIA's Air America, shatters the
universally-accepted myths and politically correct lies
that have obscured the truth about what happened in Vietnam
for decades.
Jennings, who has made a lifetime's study of the war, gives
you the surprising truth, and backs it up with facts that
the liberal pundits ignore. He demonstrates that the U.S.
did not lose the Vietnam War -- in fact, we won it. Far from
failing dismally, the U.S. achieved its goal in Vietnam: we
stopped the spread of Communism. Jennings explains how the
cultural chaos of the 1960s and 1970s negatively influenced
the Vietnam War -- not vice versa. In fact, he shows that
the Vietnam War was the most important and successful
campaign to defeat Communism. Without the sacrifices made
and the courage displayed by our military in Vietnam, the
world would be a very different place today.
The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War at last
reveals the truth about the battles, players, and policies
of one of the most controversial wars in U.S. history.
Busting myths and telling the truth about Vietnam:
Who won the war? The U.S. military lost more than
58,000 men in Vietnam; the North Vietnamese military
lost more than 1.1 million dead
How the Communists in Vietnam during the French
colonial period were not nearly so powerful as the
Western powers assumed
John F. Kennedy: how his "firm stand against Communist
aggression" took the form of an unclear, waffling
policy that led to the largest American blunder of the
Vietnam War: the acquiescence to the coup against the
only viable national leader in South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh
Diem
Lyndon Johnson: how he inherited Kennedy's mess, and
failed to clean it up -- and how, eight years and
350,000 U.S. casualties later, Nixon ended the war
using exactly the same tactics that Johnson denigrated
Ho Chi Minh: how his goal was always to impose a
Communist dictatorship upon all of Vietnam
The Tet Offensive: how most reporters, steeped in
liberal bias and opposed to the war, ran with their
prejudices instead of asking the right questions that
would have put this incident into its true perspective
as a debacle for North Vietnam
Exploded: one of the great myths of the Vietnam War --
that the North Vietnamese troops were great fighters
because they knew exactly what they were fighting for,
and our troops didn't
How the drama of the anti-war movement, the Democratic
Party's capitulation to it, and the Democratic
Congress's scalping of Richard Nixon have overshadowed
what happened on the battlefield in Vietnam between
1969 and 1972
Proven false: the Leftist charge that Nixon's approval
of a three-month incursion against North Vietnamese
sanctuaries in Cambodia qualifies him as the
"century's worst war criminal" and guilty of
"genocide"
How the people of South Vietnam were shamefully
abandoned by a United States Congress that had ousted
a president, Richard Nixon, who was ironically the
architect of our military victory
How Congress, drunk with power after destroying Nixon,
insisted on washing its hands of South Vietnam -- even
if it meant disgrace and dishonor for America and
catastrophe for our South Vietnamese allies who were
handed over to the Communist tyranny we had fought to
prevent
The men who served in Vietnam: the best educated, best
trained, and most successful (in terms of kill ratio)
army that the United States had deployed up to that
time
The POW camps of North Vietnam (and in Cambodia and
Laos and South Vietnam) -- in which Communist jailers
had ready recourse to unthinkable cruelty and
brutality, solitary confinement, ritual humiliation,
Cuban torture experts, and the withholding of medical
treatment
Proven false: the myth that Vietnam Veterans are
racked with guilt and nightmares and angst,
disproportionately prone to violence and drug use, and
unable to easily fit into society
Why the real loser of the Vietnam War was the South
Vietnamese people
Anti-war activists: how few amounted to anything more
than being a foul nuisance -- and all, collectively,
were harmful to the efforts to end the war and bring
the troops safely home from Vietnam, and remain
responsible for the loss of South Vietnam to the
brutal rule of the Communist North
The truth about the Pentagon Papers: The most
misunderstood document of the war
The geopolitical outcome of the war: how Communist
Vietnam is dependent on Western aid and trying to
adopt aspects of a capitalist economy
How Vietnam is now regarded as one of the most pro-
American countries in Asia -- with its young people
looking to emulate Bill Gates rather than Ho Chi Minh
How Vietnam's and Laos's postwar poverty and
Cambodia's "killing fields" -- a Communist-imposed
genocide based on class and politics -- have so
discredited communism in Asia that even the great
remaining Communist power, China, is itself rapidly
liberalizing its economy
How Democrats continue to try, outrageously, to
present our scuttling of South Vietnam as moral and
political wisdom
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