Wrong side? So Pol Pot and the Vietnamese Communists were the right side?
Were the VC fighting in their own country, and with the popular support of their own people?
If so - then you had no right to interfere in a sovereign state.
The US never fought a war against Pol Pot.
You know what, for a guy living in a country that owes it's total existence to us bunch of evil sons of bitches here in the old US...you sure do waste a lot of words on something you obviously don't get!
You can thank French colonialism and our desire to cause China who was backing both North Korea and North Vietnam for our involvement in Nam. That shit actually started in 1954 and WE weren't involved in it until the French pulled out and gave up Indochina.
And WE were NOT the only country fighting there. There were actually 11 countries fighting there. But hey, just like the bunch of morons that claim that the US unilaterally invaded Iraq were WRONG...that bull is wrong!
Like Iraq, we WERE the majority of the fighting forces and about a half million at the height, but there were well in excess of 100,000 troops from other countries as well.
WE...did NOT form the South Vietnamese government OR cause the split between the north and south. But we DID respond to their and the French request for help when the communist invaded the south. Kind of like Finland and Europe in WWII when we supplied MILLIONS of weapons and planes before we ever entered it!
Vietnam was split in two parts as a result of a war fought in the 50's, which we didn't have SHIT to do with, the south did NOT want the COMMUNIST Democratic Republic of Vietnam to take over and had a million man army to prove it and we were NOT baby killers...MORON. THAT is the LIE Cronkite told and idiots believed!
So instead of all the poppin' off about what evil bastards we are...maybe getting to know history would be helpful!
By the way Sunni, your wrong on this one brother. We could have ended that thing inside of 6 months to a year if we had done as MacArthur suggested and taken the war TO IT'S SOURCE!
All we had to do was cut off the north, Nam and Korea, from China and it was OVER!
Which, by the way...WAS suggested in different forms by the military on several occasions and rejected by politicians who were more worried about their political careers than the lives they put in harms way!
We didn't lose a single battle of the war. What we lost was the will to win by politicians. That's one reason I supported Nixon. If we weren't going to fight to win...get the HELL OUT!
As to the question that started this thread, our founding was ALWAYS in doubt. From the first shots fired a Lexington and Concord to the near mutiny and collapse of Washington's army to the final battle fought after the war was actually over....our founding was NEVER a sure thing!
The War of Northern Aggression could only end one of 2 ways. Either the Nationalist would determine the future or the Federalist would...but it had NOTHING to do with slavery.
The south offered to abolish slavery as part of a compromise. Lincoln rejected it because THAT was his excuse and rally cry. It WAS about state's rights and taxes.
We all know who won and how that's worked out. We DON'T know how the country would look if it had gone the other way, but the country WOULD have survived and I suspect been a HELL OF A LOT better off. A vengeful north inflicted Radical Reconstruction on the south that has left scares that STILL linger!
But we did and would have survived either way it went. It was actually LESS of a threat than the current Constitutional challenge progressives NOW represent. The Revolutionary War and our founding was ALWAYS in doubt and so was the greatest challenge to my way of thinking.
