Conservative Realism and Vietnam

April 30, 2025 marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and America’s ultimate defeat in the Vietnam War...Many conservatives supported the Vietnam War because it was a war against communism and a regime supplied and funded by the Soviet Union and Communist China. The American left opposed the war mainly because its members viewed America as the aggressor in the conflict, while praising the revolutionary regime of Ho Chi Minh... There were a few conservative realists who, to their credit, opposed the Vietnam War early on for practical, not ideological, reasons. - Harry Morgenthau - Walter Lippmann -...