To: counterpunch
Remember, we only "lost" Vietnam because of people taking on that attitude That is not true. You have it backwards.
To: Eowyn-of-Rohan
Actually, you have it backwards.
The interviewed ex-Generals of the VC army and did a 'post-mortem'.
The thing that kept them going was the realization that our own press was going to put so much pressure on our politicians that we'd lose the resolve to see it through.
On that basis alone they launched Tet. On the battlefield, the losses were so huge that had we done two things:
1. Allowed Westmorland to continue to press on enemy positions
2. Gone into Laos to cut off the Ho Chi Minh supply route.
There would never been a North Vietnam, etc.
The libs are at it again. The don't, and will never, understand that the cost of freedom is the blood of rough men willing to sacrifice themselves for people like you.
At the end of the war, even Chamberlain realized his mistake.
Get a big whiff right now, because this WW is a LONG way from over.
238 posted on
04/30/2004 12:53:57 PM PDT by
RinaseaofDs
(Only those who dare truly live - CGA 88 Class Motto)
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