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Originally Posted by jon boy
i very much doubt there will be anything like peace in that part of the world for a very long time, if ever.
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that is a very defeatists attitude.. by the way, with the amount of violence and poverty in the industrialized world, can we really claim anything like
peace in our own homes?
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Originally Posted by Keeping It Simple
Another humiliating withdrawal for the Yanks after achieving sod all. The only difference between the two is the Yanks ran from Vietnam.
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umm, I do believe the British
were involved in Iraq for at least 6 of the past 7 and half years...
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Originally Posted by ann ashtray
We could have kicked 'Nam's ass. There's NO disputing that issue. .
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I beg to differ, there were more explosives dropped on East Asia then all of Europe in WWI and WWII combined, and yet it didn't "kick Nam's ass", hundreds of people a year are still maimed and killed by unexploded ordinances..
we poured out millions and millions of toxic chemicals for years over the landscape, and we still didn't "kick Nam's ass", today these chemicals give cancer and acid trip birth defects to tens of thousands of people..
Foreign troops and billions of dollars were there since the 1940s (when Ho Chi Mihn was an official agent of the pre-CIA OSS) through the 1970s, and we didn't "kick Nam's ass"
I think it is very safe to argue that that was truly an unwinable war for the simple reason that there was nothing to win. 90% or more of the Vietnamese (and probably the same figures in Laos and Cambodia) were against the US. What were we to do, genocide the entire population?
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Originally Posted by pbradley
It seems that right wing cunts of all nations tend to think of war in the naive terms of courage and humiliation. It a sport to them, isn't it. How exceedingly vulgar.
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amen.