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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (85304)8/12/2000 9:16:36 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
The boys in the Pentagon had their own blind spots, most notably their insistence on treating the war as a purely military exercise, rather than a continuation of politics by other means. Robert Shaplen, in his book Bitter Victory, described an interesting encounter, postwar, between a US Army historian and a Vietnamese officer, a veteran of the war. According to Shaplen, the American told the Vietnamese that Vietnamese troops had never defeated Americans in any battle. The Vietnamese apparently replied "That is true. It is also irrelevant".

It is obviously impossible to know what would have happened if (fill in the blank), but I've felt for a long time that we lost that war the day we stepped in on the side of the French.
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