The Vietnamese did indeed need motivation to continue the fight. They knew that if they did not fight their communist government would simply kill them. That one like you says otherwise exposes more about you than you know, coward and traitor.
You see, this was ALWAYS our problem in Vietnam.
WE saw it as this titanic moral struggle between democracy/capitalism vs. Communism.
The Vietnamese saw it as a struggle against an imperial invader.
The history of Vietnam was always one of resisting invasion, whether it be from the Khmer, Siam, China, the Mongols, the French or the Japanese. We were just the latest in a line of unwanted guests.
Its a lesson we failed to learn 60 years earlier in the Philippines and one we failed to learn 50 years later in Afghanistan. People don't like it when you occupy their country.
Sewing dissent is not supporting the troops.
And I doubt that you were ever rightwing, only a communist. Once again I remind you, you moron, that the majority of the troops sent to Vietnam were volunteers, putting t lie another of your moronic lies.
Yes, you have too little of a mind to realize people can change theirs.. I get that. I doubt you've ever had a thought that you didn't hear on talk radio and Fox News.
You just can't stand that anyone would fight for what you hate and despise. Yet the majority of us would fight against those like you even now if just to shut your lying mouths.
Uh, let's get real. Vietnam was a draftee army. And most of those who "volunteered" only volunteered because it was common practice to offer military service to delinquents instead of prison. So the idea that you all "volunteered" to fight is kind of silly.
I on the other hand, signed up for the NG in 1981 and then elected to go active duty after college. Didn't have to, but chose to.
Of course it could be explained by your eleven year tenure. I suspect that you were either tossed out or did not have the courage to go a full twenty.
Naw, I just got fed up, because only six of those years counted towards any kind of meaningful retirement (the first five were as a reservist.) I hit a wall where i realized that if I even wanted to see E-7, I'd have to go back to another AIT to get a second MOS, then go to BNCOC because they lowered the standard to keep my E-6 rank, and then the ANCOC. I also was never a particularly good runner, and by 1992, my feet, shins and knees were kind of a mess. (They did surgery on my feet to make them better, and ended up making them worse).
So having already gotten everything I wanted out of the deal, I moved on to more lucrative and less dangerous work in the civilian world.