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1. so we go into the North...then how do we win?Yup, what the above two posters said, is all true. The Viet Cong by any measure was completely obliterated by the Tet Offensive. The N.V. regular military had very few heavy armor and tanks, and we completely destroyed what they sent at us.
There was never a time, in the entire Vietnam war, where the enemy met our troops in direct combat and won. They lost, and lost decisively every single time.
Had we simply pushed into North Vietnam, the entire country would have folded like a deck of cards. They had nothing. We were absolutely slaughtering them at every encounter.
The only defeat we faced, was the defeatist of Left-wing socialists that demanded we let our allies be slaughtered.
One of the worse mistakes in US history the US should never have been involved in that conflict in the first place. Just another time we were conned by the Pentagon and their military contractor friends...we are talking REALITY--not nuking anyone....not invading the north like the Russians and US did to Germany --that wasn't going to happen--even if they did invade the North, they couldn't stay there forever.....
..first--the French lost--and after we gave them MILLIONS$ and with all their '''advantages'' ....this should've been a lesson
......a big problem was the Vietnamese government [ and military ] = for a long time it was corrupt/unstable/etc = they had 3 heads of state changes in less than 2 years--one with a MURDER..with many attempted coups before and after......that mess was still there after Thieu took over
...N Vietnam did not have to even beat the US ......
.......the US could cut off Korea because it was peninsula--where as NV could bring troops/etc to the South over land
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Yet we tucked tail and left in disgraceWe dropped more bombs on them than we did in WWIIEven though the cost was high, we did win in a way. Vietnam seems to have become more capitalist over the years. They manufacture alot of the stuff sold in Walmart, and they've become a tourist attraction.
I mean, compared to North Korea.
You mean they are a source of cheap labor? How did we win anything?
I could imagine the Vietnam vet grumbling about Vietnamese stuff in walmart when he can't find a good job, just like the WWII vets grumbled about Volkwagens and Toyotas in the 1970's... while watching American Plants close.
Here's a crazy idea... let's make sure when we "Win", it's a win for the working class, not the rich.
OK then. Next time we'll just nuke them.
....hang on for how long? the US couldn't stay there forever....We were winning. The Cong was being wiped out. Then liberal Walter Cronkite went to Viet Nam and lied. He was the most trusted name in news and he lied. We had won the Tet Offensive with a resounding and decisive victory. Cronkite said it was a rout. A humiliating defeat. Ho Chi Minh realized he didn't have to win. Hang on and the American left would do what his army could not. Defeat our military.
folded like Afghanistan and Iraq did????!!!! hahahahahahhahahaYup, what the above two posters said, is all true. The Viet Cong by any measure was completely obliterated by the Tet Offensive. The N.V. regular military had very few heavy armor and tanks, and we completely destroyed what they sent at us.
There was never a time, in the entire Vietnam war, where the enemy met our troops in direct combat and won. They lost, and lost decisively every single time.
Had we simply pushed into North Vietnam, the entire country would have folded like a deck of cards. They had nothing. We were absolutely slaughtering them at every encounter.
The only defeat we faced, was the defeatist of Left-wing socialists that demanded we let our allies be slaughtered.
Hang on until the American left did what war did not do. Win the war which is exactly what happened.....hang on for how long? the US couldn't stay there forever....We were winning. The Cong was being wiped out. Then liberal Walter Cronkite went to Viet Nam and lied. He was the most trusted name in news and he lied. We had won the Tet Offensive with a resounding and decisive victory. Cronkite said it was a rout. A humiliating defeat. Ho Chi Minh realized he didn't have to win. Hang on and the American left would do what his army could not. Defeat our military.
..it would be just like Afghanistan and Iraq - no win
what?Hang on until the American left did what war did not do. Win the war which is exactly what happened.....hang on for how long? the US couldn't stay there forever....We were winning. The Cong was being wiped out. Then liberal Walter Cronkite went to Viet Nam and lied. He was the most trusted name in news and he lied. We had won the Tet Offensive with a resounding and decisive victory. Cronkite said it was a rout. A humiliating defeat. Ho Chi Minh realized he didn't have to win. Hang on and the American left would do what his army could not. Defeat our military.
..it would be just like Afghanistan and Iraq - no win
Hang on until the American left did what war did not do. Win the war which is exactly what happened.....hang on for how long? the US couldn't stay there forever....We were winning. The Cong was being wiped out. Then liberal Walter Cronkite went to Viet Nam and lied. He was the most trusted name in news and he lied. We had won the Tet Offensive with a resounding and decisive victory. Cronkite said it was a rout. A humiliating defeat. Ho Chi Minh realized he didn't have to win. Hang on and the American left would do what his army could not. Defeat our military.
..it would be just like Afghanistan and Iraq - no win
at the cost of over 50,000 American lives--that really showed them---and we fked ourselves--YES--now we are competing with them !!!!!Hang on until the American left did what war did not do. Win the war which is exactly what happened.....hang on for how long? the US couldn't stay there forever....We were winning. The Cong was being wiped out. Then liberal Walter Cronkite went to Viet Nam and lied. He was the most trusted name in news and he lied. We had won the Tet Offensive with a resounding and decisive victory. Cronkite said it was a rout. A humiliating defeat. Ho Chi Minh realized he didn't have to win. Hang on and the American left would do what his army could not. Defeat our military.
..it would be just like Afghanistan and Iraq - no win
Well the gooks gooks did turn into little capitalists, as opposed to being another shithole like North Korea. I've seen lots of stuff in stores that was marked "Made in Vietnam."
Looks like all that bombing did the little bastards some good, just like it did Germany and Japan.
We showed them.
at the cost of over 50,000 American lives--that really showed them---and we fked ourselves--YES--now we are competing with them !!!!!Hang on until the American left did what war did not do. Win the war which is exactly what happened.....hang on for how long? the US couldn't stay there forever....We were winning. The Cong was being wiped out. Then liberal Walter Cronkite went to Viet Nam and lied. He was the most trusted name in news and he lied. We had won the Tet Offensive with a resounding and decisive victory. Cronkite said it was a rout. A humiliating defeat. Ho Chi Minh realized he didn't have to win. Hang on and the American left would do what his army could not. Defeat our military.
..it would be just like Afghanistan and Iraq - no win
Well the gooks gooks did turn into little capitalists, as opposed to being another shithole like North Korea. I've seen lots of stuff in stores that was marked "Made in Vietnam."
Looks like all that bombing did the little bastards some good, just like it did Germany and Japan.
We showed them.
I messed up--it should read 50,000 WASTED American livesat the cost of over 50,000 American lives--that really showed them---and we fked ourselves--YES--now we are competing with them !!!!!Hang on until the American left did what war did not do. Win the war which is exactly what happened.....hang on for how long? the US couldn't stay there forever....We were winning. The Cong was being wiped out. Then liberal Walter Cronkite went to Viet Nam and lied. He was the most trusted name in news and he lied. We had won the Tet Offensive with a resounding and decisive victory. Cronkite said it was a rout. A humiliating defeat. Ho Chi Minh realized he didn't have to win. Hang on and the American left would do what his army could not. Defeat our military.
..it would be just like Afghanistan and Iraq - no win
Well the gooks gooks did turn into little capitalists, as opposed to being another shithole like North Korea. I've seen lots of stuff in stores that was marked "Made in Vietnam."
Looks like all that bombing did the little bastards some good, just like it did Germany and Japan.
We showed them.
It could have cost far more than that, had they ended up like the NORKs and developed a nuke.
I messed up--it should read 50,000 WASTED American livesat the cost of over 50,000 American lives--that really showed them---and we fked ourselves--YES--now we are competing with them !!!!!Hang on until the American left did what war did not do. Win the war which is exactly what happened.....hang on for how long? the US couldn't stay there forever....We were winning. The Cong was being wiped out. Then liberal Walter Cronkite went to Viet Nam and lied. He was the most trusted name in news and he lied. We had won the Tet Offensive with a resounding and decisive victory. Cronkite said it was a rout. A humiliating defeat. Ho Chi Minh realized he didn't have to win. Hang on and the American left would do what his army could not. Defeat our military.
..it would be just like Afghanistan and Iraq - no win
Well the gooks gooks did turn into little capitalists, as opposed to being another shithole like North Korea. I've seen lots of stuff in stores that was marked "Made in Vietnam."
Looks like all that bombing did the little bastards some good, just like it did Germany and Japan.
We showed them.
It could have cost far more than that, had they ended up like the NORKs and developed a nuke.
yet, in 1845 the Marines were in Viet-nam.In 1845 I doubt there were more than five hundred members of the US Marines in total. That's not much of an invasion force.The U.S. Marines landed in Da Nang in 1845. Your idea that our involvement was 7 years is woefully short. I would say your comment is pure ignorance. One of many comments you made that shows you never learned or educated yourself on Vietnam...the US was involved with Vietnam for over 7 years!!!!!
It has been fun showing you to be a monkey in a cage of ignorance. I may stop by from time to time to rub your nose in .......... Bad monkey, bad, bad, bad, monkey.
wilson's war....the war in Afghanistan is ''messy/unending/''unwinnable''' --but we did have a reason to go in there.....
--how long have we been there?? 2001 !!!!!!!
--critical point - it's not a board game
Yes, the USA's involvement in Viet-Nam was far more than 7 years. Our first involvement was well over a 100 years before Viet-Nam war. Your statement about over 7 years of involvement simply shows your ignorance on this topic. You believed our involvement was so short you could not even think you should look it up. At the very least we were up to our necks as early as 1954 through 1973? At least 19 years. Then again Truman began our assistance as early as 1947, can I say 26 years of involvement?..and Britain was in Europe many times before 1943---what a dumbass statement by elektra
at the cost of over 50,000 American lives--that really showed them---and we fked ourselves--YES--now we are competing with them !!!!!Hang on until the American left did what war did not do. Win the war which is exactly what happened.....hang on for how long? the US couldn't stay there forever....We were winning. The Cong was being wiped out. Then liberal Walter Cronkite went to Viet Nam and lied. He was the most trusted name in news and he lied. We had won the Tet Offensive with a resounding and decisive victory. Cronkite said it was a rout. A humiliating defeat. Ho Chi Minh realized he didn't have to win. Hang on and the American left would do what his army could not. Defeat our military.
..it would be just like Afghanistan and Iraq - no win
Well the gooks gooks did turn into little capitalists, as opposed to being another shithole like North Korea. I've seen lots of stuff in stores that was marked "Made in Vietnam."
Looks like all that bombing did the little bastards some good, just like it did Germany and Japan.
We showed them.
at the cost of over 50,000 American lives--that really showed them---and we fked ourselves--YES--now we are competing with them !!!!!Hang on until the American left did what war did not do. Win the war which is exactly what happened.....hang on for how long? the US couldn't stay there forever....We were winning. The Cong was being wiped out. Then liberal Walter Cronkite went to Viet Nam and lied. He was the most trusted name in news and he lied. We had won the Tet Offensive with a resounding and decisive victory. Cronkite said it was a rout. A humiliating defeat. Ho Chi Minh realized he didn't have to win. Hang on and the American left would do what his army could not. Defeat our military.
..it would be just like Afghanistan and Iraq - no win
Well the gooks gooks did turn into little capitalists, as opposed to being another shithole like North Korea. I've seen lots of stuff in stores that was marked "Made in Vietnam."
Looks like all that bombing did the little bastards some good, just like it did Germany and Japan.
We showed them.
During the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, several times more Americans died from drunk drivers than were killed in the war.
Deaths tolls are an extremely overdone statistic in the U.S.
.....and we were involved in Europe in WW1 ...South America and Central America...your point in nonsensical and very funnyYes, the USA's involvement in Viet-Nam was far more than 7 years. Our first involvement was well over a 100 years before Viet-Nam war. Your statement about over 7 years of involvement simply shows your ignorance on this topic. You believed our involvement was so short you could not even think you should look it up. At the very least we were up to our necks as early as 1954 through 1973? At least 19 years. Then again Truman began our assistance as early as 1947, can I say 26 years of involvement?..and Britain was in Europe many times before 1943---what a dumbass statement by elektra
comparing DUI to the Vietnam War----very silly/ridiculous/nonsensical = worthlessat the cost of over 50,000 American lives--that really showed them---and we fked ourselves--YES--now we are competing with them !!!!!Hang on until the American left did what war did not do. Win the war which is exactly what happened.....hang on for how long? the US couldn't stay there forever....We were winning. The Cong was being wiped out. Then liberal Walter Cronkite went to Viet Nam and lied. He was the most trusted name in news and he lied. We had won the Tet Offensive with a resounding and decisive victory. Cronkite said it was a rout. A humiliating defeat. Ho Chi Minh realized he didn't have to win. Hang on and the American left would do what his army could not. Defeat our military.
..it would be just like Afghanistan and Iraq - no win
Well the gooks gooks did turn into little capitalists, as opposed to being another shithole like North Korea. I've seen lots of stuff in stores that was marked "Made in Vietnam."
Looks like all that bombing did the little bastards some good, just like it did Germany and Japan.
We showed them.
During the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, several times more Americans died from drunk drivers than were killed in the war.
Deaths tolls are an extremely overdone statistic in the U.S.
