There was no reason the Vietcong couldn't have done what Al Queda has done, the WTC and Bali attacks.
They chose not to target our civilians; they chose to limit the conflict to their own homeland; they could have made other
That's some pretty good stuff you're apparently smoking... Take about "altered states" of consciousness..
The Viet Cong had a very simple philosophy. Starting in 1958, they reintroduced assassination squads into South Vietnam....By [late 1961], the Vietnamese communists were killing, on the average, 11 government officials a day. Their message to the Vietnamese people was: If you affiliate with the government of South Vietnam, in contested areas, we will kill you.
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And from a marxist terrorist leader in Brazil, Carlos Marighella, who wrote the "Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla", we have this doctrine that became widely accepted later on by other marxist/maoist guerilla groups:
airpower.maxwell.af.mil
The urban guerrilla is an implacable enemy of the government and systematically inflicts damage on the authorities and on the men who dominate the country and exercise power. The principal task of the urban guerrilla is to distract, to wear out, to demoralize the militarists, the military dictatorship and its repressive forces, and also to attack and destroy the wealth and property of the North Americans, the foreign managers, and the Brazilian upperclass.20
army.mil
In the first stages, the Viet Cong avoided units of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam and operated as guerrillas. Sabotage, bombing, terrorism, and assassination were their hallmark. Speed, security, surprise, and deception were keys to their success.
Certainly not limited to military targets there, are they?
They'd be stupid if they were...
Personally, I find it less than amazing that someone, such as yourself, would believe that the Viet Cong would NEVER lower themselves to using terrorism to advance their "noble cause", totalitarianism...
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