I always blamed President Ford, to some extent, about the loss of Vietnam.  I was wrong.  I just read a copy of the speech Gerald Ford gave to a joint session of congress on April 10, 1975.  That was 35 hears ago today.  President Ford practically begged congress to give him the authority to save South Vietnam.  He was unsuccessful.  Sadly, everything bad that he said would happen did happen.  But the Democrats in congress did not care.  They were sick of the war, so they simply looked the other way and tossed all the sacrifices made by our military on the scrap heap of history.  It was a shameful abandonment of our allies.  We are still paying a price today.  If you want to know why Karzai in Afghanistan does not trust Obama to stay the course, just read this speech.  It was a shameful moment in American history.

I was wrong about President Ford.  He made his case.  He did the right thing.  The only thing else he could have done was to defy congress and try to take action on his own.

It is particularly chilling to read the comments about Cambodia.  Approximately 2 million people were killed by the Khmer Rouge as a result of our failure to take action.

 Here, courtesy of flopping aces, is a copy of that speech:

 http://www.floppingaces.net/2010/04/10/the-presidents-address-to-a-joint-session-of-congress/