We did not LOSE in Vietnam. We LEFT. There is a big difference!
Was the bombing to stop the killing...
I thought it was to stop the threat of killing.
Were we enforcing just a no-fly zone, establishing a sort of no-fly zone...
Hard to enforce something which does not exist. Wasn't the excuse for dropping a Billion dollars worth of bombs the first day that we had to establish said no-fly zone?
We had no right and no business attacking Libya.
“We did not LOSE in Vietnam. We LEFT. There is a big difference!”
What is the difference between leaving (retreating) and losing, please explain?
Certainly, the US military was not defeated on the battlefield, but our retreat left the enemy with stretegic and tactical control of the battlefield. Been a while since I read Claustwitz, but this is defeat.
“Attacking” the will of our politicians and people to continue the fight is a viable military strategy - and it worked.
I lost a cousin in Vietnam and it pains me to consider that he died for no good reason, but we did lose.