[leadpenny]

We might not have won but we certainly did not lose! To use a football analogy, we pulled the first team out of the game at the end of the third quarter and then the US congress took away the helmets, shoulder pads and shoes from the guys remaining on the field. Our congress sold out the South Vietnamese in a way that caused our "allies" to question our commitments for decades. Our enemies are still testing our national resolve. ~RangerVetNam

Illbay, what RVN said . . In spades!

[Illbay]

If you insist on talking of the war as if it were a football game, then consider this: I have seen plenty of games where one team DOMINATED in all the statistics. They had more yards passing. More first downs. More yards rushing. Greater time of possession.

Except for one thing: They lost, because they had fewer points on the scoreboard than their "inferior" opponent.

So it was with Vietnam: The time ran out on the game clock, and the other team, the INFERIOR team, the team we beat six ways from Sunday in all these arcane statistical areas, had more points on the scoreboard.

WE GOT BEAT, 'CAUSE THEY HAD SCOREBOARD!