We should not have been there in the first place.
56,000 dead. For nothing.
It was a noble cause, and over 70% of Vietnam veterans (myself included) have said they were glad they served there even knowing how the war would end (over 80% of us are proud of our service). It accomplished a lot -- ask Lee Kwan Yu of Singapore who agrees.
Shame on you for besmirching the obituary of a great soldier.
You can thank John F Kennedy for our being there....and his fat sob brother Ted for making it political.
*clack-CLACK*
Get Ready to Join 'em, Troll.
It is amazing to me that all these years later, we are still fighting John Kerry and the MSM disinformation machine about Viet Nam. As a Freeper, you should know better.
I disagree. We learned a vital and bloody lesson there and it was a time of recent history that can be pointed to when folks want to know what it's like to have a Democrat President in charge of a war effort. More can look to Somalia and Bosnia. But most important of all, the folks who were Second Lieutenants then are the Generals now and their solemn vow of NEVER AGAIN was well and truly manifested in Grenada, Panama, and both Gulf Wars. The fact that Gulf War #2 is going slowly reinforces the drawback to fighting insurgents and terrorists with conventional troops. That's one reason we've got to get the Iraqi troops trained up and on the job so we can get out. Vietnamization took waaaaay too long to accomplish. We can do better.
In Afghanistan right after 911, we sent in 100 Operators from the various SpecOps groups. in just 100 days they'd killed over 30,000 Taliban and AQ with the help of hi-tech artillery and close air support. THAT'S how you fight a war where the enemy is unconventional.
If we had won the war in Vietnam, not only might Indo-China be free, but the Soviet empire probably would have collapsed ten years sooner.
We signed a peace, then lost. Congress refused aid to the South Vietnamese, and they succumbed to a full-scale blitzkrieg.
We lost because we insisted on fighting a purely defensive war. It would have been very easy to win, but the liberal politicians (who started the war in the first place!) would not go for victory.
Goldwater was right: you either go for victory, or you shouldn't be there.
I will never forgive the media, the "anti war" (really pro-communist) demonstrators, and the congressional traitors who lost Vietnam. I will remember, and so will my children and grandchildren. Recriminations? Hell yes!
John? John Kerry? Is that you?
Well, well, well. 30 (make this 31) replies to your cowardly, communistic puking, and not ONE defending you.
"Can you hear us NOW?"
Next time, THINK before you spew.
You suck. And not well, at that.
Sh*t, I guess the whole Cold War was one big circle jerk in your stupid little world.
Go smoke some dope and go to sleep---idiot-wanne-be-has-been-a$$hole.