rightwinger
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It was those on the right who slaughtered a million of their countrymenWhat I used to hear was, "kill them all to make them free".What would you have considered a win?we left because it was unwinnableAbsolutely true. It just irritates me that while it was in fact a victory in any other sense.... there was heavy morale damage done by people saying that we lost.... when we most certainly did not.
And it still persists to this day. We did not lose. We left. There is a difference. It's like Bobby Fischer.
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Remember when Bobby knew he was going to win already, but offered to concede? The other guy refused, and told him to keep play, and Bobby won. Because him leaving, is not the same as beating him.
We left the match. We left because of all this crap by left-wingers here in the US. If we had simply unshackled our military, we would have easily destroyed the North Vietnamese.
Even during the rolling thunder campaign by Nixion, the military was complaining about the restrictions on targets. You can't win a war, by having some blow hard politicians in Washington sitting there, micro managing "ok you can bomb that... but no you can't bomb that.... and you might be able to bomb that. I'll ask about it in a committee meeting next week".
You can't win with that. You have to let the military do the job. Or DO NOT DO THE JOB.
This is like Mogadishu. The military said to the government we need this and this, and that, and this, to do this job. The government said.... no, you don't need all that. So we rolled into Mogadishu with only partially equipped and armored units, and then got torn up by some half starving militia units.
You can't do it that way. Ridiculous.
You have the right to be wrong. It was winnable. Very easily too.
When you hear a joke, consider it as such.
We ditched our allies in South Vietnam, and the north slaughtered civilians. They literally went around slaughtering civilians throughout the south. That's the reason we had the Vietnamese boat people.
Don't tell me our troops were engaged in the evil, when the facts show left-wingers were the ones killing everyone.
The people on the left-wing caused that above. Not us on the right.