johnnydawg68
Chairperson, People's Front of Saint Domingo
Vietnam was defo a draw
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Vietnam was defo a draw
johnnydawg68
Chairperson, People's Front of Saint Domingo
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johnnydawg68
Chairperson, People's Front of Saint Domingo
Ok so there is an Omnimax theater right by my house. I'm going tonight for sure.
Yeah right...whatever.
Tell that to the guy who didn't make it on to the last helicopter off the roof in Saigon.
Even when you were 'winning', you were that busy losing, you couldn't see you weren't fighting the same war as them.
Well........The US did completely defeat and destroy the Vietcong. Then the NVA picked up the fighting. And the crap thing was for every advance/battle won, they gave it back a week later, then battled to take it back again a month later. A case of politicians dictating tactics and strategy to the people who know how to do it.
Though that war was 'lost' back home in the US. Seeing as it was a deeply unpopular war, we pulled out of Vietnam because of the promises politicians made forcing Ford to withdraw.
And the whole withdrawal was done badly as well. And as the support for the South was cut off entirely, and oil prices soaring meaning the South couldn't use their equipment, a whole lot of US hardware ended up in NVA hands.
We were certainly not a nice opponent to have during that time.
Human suffering on both sides aside as it were, Historically around the world how is it seen? - draw or loss.
The only winners were the Commie North!
It is all conjecture, and I know war has real tangible effects on people, but if the actual tacticians and strategists were given a free hand, the outcome would have probably been very different.
Uhmm, for a bit of context, IIRC, the British at Dunkirk suffered more fatalities than the US did in Vietnam for the whole time we had forces there (just looked it up....68,000 British killed at Dunkirk in less than two weeks vs 58,000 US killed from 1955-1975).
In the US we kill 20,000 people a year from drink driving!
In the US we kill 20,000 people a year from drink driving!
Is the right answer.
As the Politicians 'Control' the Generals, 99/100 times the result would have been the same...it was pretty much an 'Unwinnable' war as you are likely to find.
I'm pretty sure @johnnydawg68 just forgot to engage his sarcastic font...but I couldn't let it pass, so I gave him a tickle.
Time to move on, both historically and literally.
'There was never a good war, or a bad peace' - Ben Franklin.
add to that the 19,000 on the first day of the Somme, you might say we're trending down.
gonetomorrow
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I haven't seen a war film since The Longest Day in 1964.
That was with my late father who was in the RAF.
That was with my late father who was in the RAF.
Nothing personal, but American foreign policy in the following decades was just as disgusting, the obsession with everyone bowing to a few rich men's way of life
Gwladysstreetlad
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I was 50/50 about seeing this film but you've sold me on it Chico, will defo be seeing it in the next few days now!
To be honest mate I haven't even seen it as I don't want to donate to UKIP.I was 50/50 about seeing this film but you've sold me on it Chico, will defo be seeing it in the next few days now!
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