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To: Captain Kirk

It’s pretty hard to fight without ammo. Or medical supplies.

We made a commitment to the South Vietnamese and they trusted us. The Democrats cut off all aid and left them twisting in the wind. The Democrats dishonored our country.

Don’t take my word for it. General Vo Nguyen Giap, the NV commander himself said that they had lost the war, but they knew that if they hung on long enough that the Left in the U.S. would undermine America’s resolve. The Left has also spread their malicious lies about the war and our military for impressionable fools to believe.

Your slander the American military and the South Vietnamese military is based upon popular culture, not history.


38 posted on 10/28/2009 12:01:12 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (A trade: Conservative Anglicans for Liberal Catholics and a heretic to be named later.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
It’s pretty hard to fight without ammo. Or medical supplies.

It is not slander if it is the truth. These excuses simply can't explain ARVN failure to either stand or fight or launch an insurgency. Countless insurgent movements have been launched without some sugar daddy supply "ammo." Two cases in point were the Phillipine insurgency against the U.S. at the turn of the last century and the initial Afghan insurgency against the Soviets. AIn all cases, they either made their own ammo or captured (or stole) if from the enemy. The key equation in war is fighting will. That's why the Confederates, who had virtually no domstic ammo production, held on so long. The ARVN didn't have that.

39 posted on 10/28/2009 12:33:41 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
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