After stealing the 1960 election from Richard Nixon using voter fraud, Democrat John F. Kennedy failed at the Bay of the Pigs mission to subtract Cuba from the Soviet bloc by pulling out air cover at the last minute. As a result, following a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, in a conversation with columnist James Reston, explaining that during the meeting he, Kennedy, was seen as weak, Kennedy said, “Now we have a problem in trying to make our power credible, and Vietnam looks like the place.” When he stepped up U.S. involvement in Vietnam to make up for it, he did not do a good job at that either. Kennedy accused Ngo Dinh Diem, the most efficient president of South Vietnam, of being an oppressive dictator and allowed him to be overthrown in a coup one month before his assassination, paving the way for the communist takeover of South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. When Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded him, Johnson crushed his Republican opponent Barry Goldwater in the 1964 landslide election by smearing him as a maniac who would start a nuclear war. After that, Goldwater advised him to either stay out of the Vietnam War, or win it. Johnson ignored his advice and decided to use the Vietnam War to export the welfare state instead of making victory the goal. It took Republican Richard Nixon to withdraw the United States. Although United States congress lost the Vietnam War, the American military won it. The United States military lost more than 58,000 men in the Vietnam War; the North Vietnamese military lost more than 1.1 million. Who would you guess was the victor? As a matter of fact, the US military never had significant battle losses. North Vietnam took over South Vietnam with tank battalions, the same way Nazi Germany took over Poland and France. More than a thousand civilians have been killed by the US armed forces; in fact, pains have been taken to avoid civilian casualties. Any soldier who intentionally killed a civilian was prosecuted. Black and white soldiers suffered causalities within their proportions. “We had to destroy a village to save it” was a fake quote attributed to an unidentified U. S. Army major by journalist Peter Arnett. Ivy League students back then were more likely than Vietnam soldiers to abuse drugs. Today, the Vietnamese are among the most pro-American people on the planet. Ho Chi Minh’s economic policies have been abandoned a few years after the Vietnamese unification. The reason South Vietnam lost the war and Laos and Cambodia fell to communism was because of the biased coverage from the American news media. Back then, there was no internet, and no conservative talk radio due to the FCC’s 1949 “fairness doctrine,” which President Ronald Reagan tore down in 1987. All three broadcast news networks that were spin-offs of Radio Corporation of America, CBS, NBC, and ABC, as well as almost all the newspapers at the time, were left-of-center. Excellent books on the war include The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War by Phillip Jennings, No More Vietnams by Richard Nixon, and A Soldier Reports by William Westmoreland. John Kerry, who ran against George W. Bush in 2004 and lost but later became Barack Obama’s secretary of state, betrayed the American cause in the Vietnam War, which you can read about in the number one New York Times bestseller Unfit for Command by John O’Neil and Jerome Corsi, or watch in the documentary Stolen Honor.