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To: michael97123 who wrote (91576)	4/9/2003 10:09:24 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

how many more deaths beyond 58,000 were we willing to have not to mention we had an ally with little popular support and not to mention vietnamese casualties beyond what occurred. I'm not of the opinion that the North Vietnamese had much political support. They were just as oppressive as any other Marxist regime (and to an extent, still are).. Yet they won the war... The various South Vietnamese regimes were corrupt, that there is little doubt of. But from 1968 through 1975, from my understanding and study of the war, there were some dramatic changes occuring in the south as "Vietnamization" was commenced and US troops withdrawn. They were forced to realize that the US was pulling out and that they could no longer "ride on our coattails" and expect victory to be assured. But it was too little, too late. And with the North getting stronger as it replaced its losses from Tet and the Invasion of Cambodia (which destroyed its sanctuary there), and the US refusing to even provide ammunition to the South, the outcome was hardly in doubt. We were just tired of being involved in Vietnam and spending our national treasure and blood there. And we just abandoned them. All at the same time that the Russians and Chinese were providing the North with even more advanced weapons, and the technology to build a fuel pipeline along the Ho Chi Minh trail. Just imagine that.. A fuel pipeline laid in the triple canopy jungle of Laos and Cambodia.. There was just no way the South could defend all of its borders with the forces it had on hand. conwayschools.afsc.k12.ar.us Hawk