{"id":20386,"date":"2023-10-20T01:02:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T08:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20386"},"modified":"2023-10-20T01:02:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T08:02:21","slug":"firing-line-friday-vietnamization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/10\/20\/firing-line-friday-vietnamization\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing Line Friday: Vietnamization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The question of American troops fighting abroad seems to be a nonstop debate at times. \u00a0 Nixon\u2019s Vietnamization plan resulted in South Vietnam, with Americans playing the support role, roll back North Vietnam\u2019s Easter Offensive, which held until backstabbing Democrats after their 1974 Congressional sweep withheld support and funding. Over half-a-century ago, William F. Buckley, Jr. discussed the question of <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.hoover.org\/objects\/6165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vietnmization<\/a> with Harrison E. Salisbury and Douglas Eugene Pike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CWmcsf4PKOs?si=hIxRyAX1AC8Pd9FU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Until next Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg 591w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Firing Line Friday: Vietnamization \"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The question of American troops fighting abroad seems to be a nonstop debate at times.  Nixon\u2019s Vietnamization plan resulted in South Vietnam, with Americans playing the support role, roll back North Vietnam\u2019s Easter Offensive, which held until backstabbing Democrats after their 1974 Congressional sweep withheld support and funding.  Over half-a-century ago, William F. Buckley, Jr. discussed the question of Vietnmization with Harrison E. Salisbury and Douglas Eugene Pike.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The question of American troops fighting abroad seems to be a nonstop debate at times. \u00a0 Nixon\u2019s Vietnamization &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/10\/20\/firing-line-friday-vietnamization\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,29],"tags":[19,95],"class_list":["post-20386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-war-terror","tag-communism","tag-firing-line-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20387,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20386\/revisions\/20387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}