[PGR88]

IMHO, Vietnam was no different than Korea - a Soviet/Communist supported ake over of an East Asian country through invasion and guerrilla tactics.

In Korea, we met the challenge and the aggressor understood that continued fighting was useless. The USA built and protected what became a great and successful country - South Korea. America is rightly proud of its role there.

In Vietnam, part of the government and population undermined the war. It gave the enemy encouragement.

[ThanhPhero]

Hardly anyone thinks about Korea. The crap those guys went through there is every bit as bad as what we faced in Nam, worse at Chosin. Chosin was their Tết but they got pushed way back. In ̉́Tết 68 the "indigenous" VC were mostly killed and the rest hightailed it to the north and to Cambodia/Laos and the NVA units ran decamped back to the north. Had we followed up, especially after the following abortive Spring Offensive Giap said that Hà Nội was preparing for invasion of the North and occupation, but the wise ones in Washington decided the commies needed a break after being so badly whipped.

[dfwgator]

In Vietnam, part of the government and population undermined the war. It gave the enemy encouragement.

I blame the South Vietnamese government which gave preferential treatment to their Catholic minority and alienated the Buddhist majority.