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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (84970)8/7/2000 6:51:06 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 

We should have invaded North VietNam and forced surrender that way.

Do you really think that would have worked, or would it have been just another quagmire? Certainly we could have taken Hanoi and the major cities, and any piece of countryside that we wanted at any given time. But could we have held it all? Installed a government capable of functioning without the constant presence of our army? I doubt it. The French held all the key points in North Vietnam, and it didn't help them.

I don't believe we should have been there in the first place. When the Vietnamese were fighting the French, our ideology blinded us to the basic fact that colonialism is more fundamentally immoral than communism, and we took the wrong side. Sometimes the good guys do win, and in this case it happened to be when we were backing the bad guys.
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