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Originally Posted by cmac2012
If we'd have "won" then what? Decades of being sniped at by nationalists? Don't look now, but we have the same scenario playing out in Iraq. Way too many people there are never going to sit still with us being there. Or our puppets.
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I dunno what if we had won, or even if we could win. I thought the issue in Viet Nam was a civil war. Outside the cities, in my observations, people were far more concerned about feeding their families than who ran the g'ment. On the other hand, if the communists had a brain cell or 2, they would have realized Viet Nam could be a vacation paradise. But dogma, and later land mines, got in the way-again.
My comment was directed to Cronkite's mis-characterization of the Tet offensive. The Tet offensive was a disaster for the Viet Cong.