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To: combjelly who wrote (261247)11/19/2005 4:47:43 PM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1575354
 
See "The Fog Of War". In that film defence chief McNamara admits that the entire justification for the Vietnam War was dishonest, the entire plan to win was unrealistic and we didn't even know who are real enemies were. In fact, our #1 enemy turned out to be ourselves, that is those at the top who got us into the war and made so many callous and flawed decisions.

When you occupy a country and blow up its people by the tends of thousands you do not make yourselves welcome. As a result, most of the Vietnamesese people wanted us out of there, hated us and were willing to die to kill us. Not just the North Vietnamese, but most of them outside the inner circle of the South Vietnamese government. In fact Saiagon was just as filled with terrorist bombings as Baghdad is now.



To: combjelly who wrote (261247)11/19/2005 5:14:33 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1575354
 
"The reason we couldn't win had more to do with the political decision that we weren't going to cross over into the North. So they were free to infiltrate men into the South."

I think that was only part of it. The people of the south weren't as ideologically committed to the corrupt governments we'd been propping up there as the communist soldiers were. They saw no real reason to fight for them. A problem we ALSO have in Iraq.


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