Tuesday, July 19, 2005
General Westmoreland, R.I.P.
General William Westmoreland, who commanded our troops in the important part of the Vietnam War, died of natural causes yesterday at age 91. I think he did the best he could, with the difficult hand the politicians dealt him, in our necessary, though ill-fated, response to Communist expansion. He said in the article, again in the Rocky Mountain News, that he had no regrets about his tours of duty in Vietnam. He shouldn't have had any. We connoisseurs of the Vietnam War know that he did well and that it was lack of political foresight and will stateside that caused our failure there. We generally kicked a-- on the battlefield under his command. I salute a great American's passing.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 6:56 AM 
