Vietnam Was Not a Defeat:
It was a loss of Will by the Sulzberger Family

The same family that forced America’s teenagers to travel to Asia to enter the war in Vietnam, and then changed their mind and condemned the boys they had sent are now doing the same thing in another part of Asia.

The Sulzberger family owns the New York Times/Boston Globe conglomerate and is leading the charge, for political reasons, to condemn the troops in Iraq.

Meanwhile, the Sulzbergers kept their own family’s men safe and sound and far away from combat during Vietnam, Korea, WWII and WWI. They were never in danger.*

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* The one who never left US soil in 1917-1918 was Arthur Hays Sulzberger, a handsome army officer who strutted around South Carolina in an officer's uniform. Meanwhile the nephew of Adolph Ochs (the founder of the New York Times) who was a hero in Europe, returned home to find Sulzberger sitting in his office at the Times because he had seduced and married the only child of Ochs, Iphigene Ochs, in order that he could inherit the Times.

In WWII, Punch Sulzberger enlisted in the Marines in 1943 but his father Arthur Hays Sulzberger used his connections with the American Red Cross to travel to the Pacific and visit General MacArthur, who at the father's request, had Punch assigned to his personal staff, where he spent the entire war driving a limo for the General and doing other similar tasks. When the Korean conflict arose, Punch had become an officer in the Marine Corp, and was assigned to Korea for a short period, but was pulled back to the United States.

During the Vietnam war, the Sulzbergers had nothing but disdain for the soldiers serving. In his best selling book, "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America" Bernard Goldberg records this conversation between Pinch Sulzberger, and his father Punch:

“It seems that back in the 60s, when young Pinch was such a committed student activist against the war in Vietnam that he was twice arrested in antiwar protests, his exasperated father, then-Times publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Sr., asked him a simple question: ‘If a young American soldier comes upon a young Vietnamese soldier, which one do you want to see get shot?’
“Pinch didn’t even hesitate. It was, he said, ‘the dumbest question I ever heard in my life,’ adding ‘I would want to see the American get shot. It’s the other guy’s country.’

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No one is being drafted today as they were in Vietnam, Korea, and in both World Wars. They are all volunteers whose morale is high despite the efforts of Pinch Sulzberger to destroy it by enlisting the natural inclinations of the women in America to vote against every war- particularly where their sons or husbands might be involved.