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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Tommaso who wrote (114004)6/16/2008 9:27:04 AM
From: Knighty Tin  Read Replies (1) of 132070
 
Where I disagree with both of you is that opposition to the Vietnam War in the U.S. did not attract huge notice until AFTER it was obvious that we were in a war we could never win. Yes, without U.S. based opposition, we might have been able to keep our puppets in power in Saigon forever. They would never control the countryside and we would never allow South Vietnam to have anything approaching a democracy. In a democratic election, The Viet Cong would have won many parliament seats and probably the majority and the Presidency. The VC were not especially popular, but our handpicked and handkilled dictators appealed to nobody besides a small elite within the country. That elite now lives in the U.S.
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