canyondweller guy, you're as wrong as Alan is about the NVA, the people or the VC of Vietnam.
we were not defeated by the farmer, villager or peasant of Vietnam we were defeated by our own government, we kept up with all the tradional standards of measure for a fighting force, Army, Air Force(which I know quite a bit about)Marines, Navy, Coast Guard, CIA and other special operation groups.
We were never allowed, by our own government, to fully proscute the war to the extent that we were capable of....it was 100% politics, the politics of McNamara, Laird, Johnson, Bundy and many other names no longer important...adding to a large degree of homeland confusion and doubt was Jane Fonda and John Kerry in essence helping fuel the fires of an already corrupt, mismanaged political group of pinheads in charge of fighting the war......
NVA and Viet Cong my ass.....there were several viable options available to ending the Vietnam conflict other than the disgraceful way we ended it...
Nixon, Kissinger were the architecs of that miserable, despicable pulling out of VN txhe way we did....
there was a political agenda followed by those players and to make a long story short it goes like this.....
Prolong the war until re-election time so that I can make promises to get us out of the war in a timely manner....
that deed accomplished, the defacto pull out was then a matter of expidiencey.
for the record and my POV the only similarity between VN and Iraq is that people are dying.......
regards from Chuck |
