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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (143903)8/24/2004 12:23:23 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
First, I do not know that we killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in the south. Second, we were engaged in guerilla war with an enemy that often tried to blend in with the civilian population, so a rather heavy amount of collateral damage, or alleged collateral damage, is not that strange. Third, repulsing Tet involved a lot of urban warfare, which is extremely difficult and involves a lot of collateral damage as one fights it out neighborhood by neighborhood. Fourth, instability caused a lot of refugees, a population especially vulnerable to disease and malnutrition. Fifth, the Communists were very liberal with reprisals, both during the war and after. In the general chaos of the fall of the Saigon regime, it is very difficult to say how many might have perished.
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