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Originally Posted by Txjake
Here, I fixed it for you:
"However, I bear in mind that our gub-mint was killing communist soldiers knee deep in mud at the time and plenty of us, foolishly, believed it was insane and noted that govt. powers that be had about zero interest in that assessment."
Vietnam happened, we were right to go there, and yet the leftists in this country saw to it that most folks think those 50 thousand plus US soldiers died in vain.....if there was any US defeat or communist victory, it should be laid at the feet of the socialist and communist sympathisers in the US
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Try fixing your brain. Get a clue people! Ho Chi Minh and boys thought communism looked like democracy cuz the experience they'd had with "free markets" looked a lot like colonial exploitation, with the French lining up warships and shelling villages to soften up resistance. Ho and boys helped us mop up the Japanese in '45 and wanted to be out ally and ward much more than they wanted same with the Russians. The French wouldn't hear of it and the rest is a tawdry history of folly.
They were never going to give up, Diem and Thu (sp) were crooks with a fraction of the popular support of Ho.
And further, the Gulf of Tonkin incident was
A GDed FRAUD!!! Deputy CIA director at the time, Roy Cline, IIRC, can be seen on video saying that they knew in advance and coordinated with a night time attack by two unmarked SV gun boats on the same port that 36 hours the Maddox steamed by and zigged zagged back and forth in front of 5 miles away (i.e., in full view) for
5 hours.
Exactly what the hell do you think we would have done under such circumstances? They sent out two small gun boats to repell the INVADER.
Even Adm. James Stockdale, a pilot in the air during the supposed 2nd G. of T. incident, says it didn't happen, it was just radar phantoms in thick fog.
We went round the bend in a big way. The sooner ya'all die-hard hawks can see and admit it, the sooner you can be helped.
Jeeeeeezzzzz louise . . . .