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Originally Posted by aklim
How? We deliberately set off bombs in a diner there?
The issue then was the spread of communism and the sponsorship from the USSR that we were addressing. The thought was that state by state was falling to the communists and it could threaten us at some point. Yes, I know they didn't attack us and couldn't. The thought was that if enough countries fell, it would pose a problem.
If those troops did what Hezbollah and Hammas does and the other side didn't, why not?
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You can split hairs all you want. No suicide bombers on our side in Nam but we did have brave men dropping bombs from 30,000 feet on cities and semi-randomly in fields and elsewhere.
Yeah, we were worried that if X, Y, and Z were to happen, we might have *********s in jet planes laying waste to our cities. So in a stroke of utter brilliance, we thought, we'll do it first and it'll never get to that point!!
Yeah, yeah a long time ago, Soviet menace, etc. Ho wanted to be our ally much more than the Soviets but we weren't interested in a former western colony becoming a free agent. Read some real history on it instead of swallowing the official Ollie North version.
Spare me this crap of how everyone else are murderous creeps cept us.