Dave Ellen re:"I expect the right weapons would have been similar to the one you mention"
I guess I don't understand your position....you weren't advocating nukes, but we used everything else in our arsenal including dozens of weapons developed just for Vietnam. We had helicopters, C130 gunships, B-52 saturation bombing, grenade launchers, heavy and light machine guns, artillery of all sizes, Naval guns, body armor, tanks armored personnel carriers and vehicles of all sort, river gun boats, a complete and unchallenged Air Force, Special Forces, Seal hit teams as we just learned, defoliation (agent orange), urine spelling sensors, advanced radar and listening devices, nausea and tear gas, etc etc etc........what were we missing.????? And oh btw, we had 525,000 men in the field.
I'd also like to hear more about your friend having to go across and airfield to get weapons because they weren't authorized to have them by their side......sounds preposterous.... what kind of weapons was he talking about?
I tend to agree we were driven out as much by the folks at home as by the enemy and in recent years the Vietnam War was becoming more glamorized and patriotic, but the Kerrey revelations, I think, are making a lot of folks remember why they were against it in the first place. Why, in your view, should we have been there? |
