Pierre Asselin
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first heard Apr 2025
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And I think that's the thing.
It's Johnson's refusal to call up the reserves, the National Guards, makes it so that middle class America is not fighting that war.
So it's going to be young Americans who get drafted and get sent to Vietnam.
I love my students, but there's a level of despondency that would not exist if you bring back the draft.
Because now, right, we're always at war, but it's always the same people going to war, right?
The rest of us...
are enjoying our lives like nothing is going on.
But that's the thing.
During Vietnam, you might be enjoying life right now, but just so you know, next week, your number gets called and off to Vietnam you go.
So your parents are watching television closely because it's on everybody's mind that the longer this lasts, the more there's a possibility that my own family will have a personal stake in that conflict.
him.
He was aware, right, that things were problematic in Vietnam.
But the scope of the offensive, and that's the thing, that offensive, it's always remembered for the Battle of Hue and like these surprise attacks on the 31st of January.
But it's really like from the communist standpoint, it's a year-long campaign.
It's throughout 68.
I mean, they're dramatically escalating.
the intensity of their attacks on South Vietnamese, American and other allied forces.
And it's just the idea that the Americans were unprepared.
I think fundamentally, Don, here we have to give credit to the communists.
You know, it's to launch that kind of attack in that context.
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