Thread: And That's The Way It Is
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Old 07-24-2009, 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by cmac2012 View Post
That would be from a study of Vietnamese history. They'd been fighting off the superior numbers of the Chinese for around a 1,000 years. They persisted against the French and heavy odds for quite a while, decades and then the last war - '46 to '54.

And then there was Ho's declaration, which I'm pretty sure we knew about early on, that they could and would, if need be, lose 10 to our 1 and still go on.

They had nowhere else to go. Our guys had the luxury of knowing they would, or might rather, go home oneday. Their backs were against the wall, ours weren't.
Except for the Chinese, the Vietnamese citizens always outnumbered their advisaries. I don't believe their backs were to the wall. As I posted before, most of the people I saw were more concerned about feeding their families than who was the g'ment. The VC lost the Tet offensive in a big way but Cronkite's claim the war was unwinnable gave them a PR victory.
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