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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: TimF who wrote (161306)5/2/2005 4:06:57 PM
From: GST  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
<In Vietnam we didn't send "fleets of B-52 s" or any other type of aircraft to level Hanoi.>

In a country where 75% of the population lived in rural areas, the use of carpet bombing, "defoliation" and fire bombing of non-urban areas was devastating. The civilian death toll ran in the vicinity of 2 million people, with another 3 million soldiers killed. That would make the civilian death rate 40% of the 5 million killed -- not exactly an attractive result -- unless of course wiping out ten percent of the total population is your idea of "saving" the country. The same ratio in the US would yield a total of 30 million dead, with 12 million of those from the civilian population. Hopefully, nobody will ever seek to invade and "save" our country in this manner.
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