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To: jjm2111
No, the Vietnam war was lost in the way we tried to fight it. We tried to pretend it was like WWII..

Hardly. If we had fought VietNam like we fought WW II we would have nuked Hanoi, or at least carpet bombed it for the duration and sent the Navy and Marines in to occupy the port of Haiphong. We fought VN like the anti-WWII.

55 posted on 01/22/2007 4:14:40 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard
"Hardly. If we had fought VietNam like we fought WW II we would have nuked Hanoi, or at least carpet bombed it for the duration and sent the Navy and Marines in to occupy the port of Haiphong. We fought VN like the anti-WWII.

Hardly. We tried to fight a guerrila war conventionally, and it is the same thing we are doing in Iraq. There were no traditional "lines" in Vietnam the way there were in WWII. The populace did not see us as liberators and we never actually tried to conquer North Vietnam.

87 posted on 01/23/2007 7:42:39 AM PST by jjm2111 (http://www.purveryors-of-truth.blogspot.com)
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