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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
There was a lot of stupidity in the running of the Viet Nam War. MacNamara was a business genius, but not a good military mind.
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The conception was just a bit whack also. Big tip o' the hat to Tail Gunner Joe and J. Edgar Hoover. Funny how great wars, great as in hugely awful, often seem to revolve around a scapegoat.
And then we add smirking man of ambition, gonna be a great general, Westmoreland. To this day hawks whine that our rules of engagement didn't allow our guys to really slaughter the damn g****. This in spite of carpet bombing, napalm, and a casualty ratio of between 10 and 20 Vn to every 1 American.
Coulda won that war gawddammit.