To: mrustow
That is a good point, but not valid, IMO. To the Vietnamese (N. and S.), the interlopers were the Americans. The VC were fighting against them, the S. Viets were not; therefore, the VC had much more motivation.
13 posted on
02/25/2003 10:30:07 AM PST by
expatpat
To: expatpat
That is a good point, but not valid, IMO. To the Vietnamese (N. and S.), the interlopers were the Americans. The VC were fighting against them, the S. Viets were not; therefore, the VC had much more motivation.But I'd always heard that the hatreds of a civil war -- countrymen killing each other -- were always more passionate than in any war against an external enemy.
17 posted on
02/25/2003 10:46:08 AM PST by
mrustow
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