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Well you are free to reject whatever you want. But it doesn't make it any less true. We lost because we didn't have the will to win. We succumbed to political pressure of correctness which was enormous.
No will? You sent over three million troops there in total. And lost nearly sixty thousand. You think that shows a lack of committment? That position is ridiculous. Maybe you mean that a final and belated realisation that you were not going to win and only lose more lives equates to a lack of will.
Yeah, political correctness. What a laugh. You don't think it had anything to do with the civillian casualties I posted earlier? Nothing to do with the stupendously horrendous number of innocents being killed? Nothing to do with America's friends telling them that they needed to stop?
In my opinion we lost because of political reasons, a lot of which came from the left in the U.S. and elsewhere. An example would be that the Viet Cong were supposedly totally unrelated to the North Vietnamese and thus our war was not against North Vietnam. Also the critical Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos was not seized because we supposedly were not in a war with Laos, yet the Laotians were puppets of the North Vietnamese and North Vietnamese troops were in Laos. It's a lot like today's left tries to handicap Israel with claims Israel was just waiting to attack civilians in Gaza, etc. and that there should be a cease fire, avoiding the fact that Palestinians think Israel should no longer exist.
All it did was show our willingness through troops at a lost cause because you didn't have the will do what it took to win that war. Yeah they through troops at it and then tied their hands behind their backs. Go get em Tiger, but you can't use your arms. Yeah you are just sacrificing people at that point.
During the Vietnam War the United States dropped approximately twice as many tons of bombs in Southeast Asia as the Allied forces combined used against both Germany and Japan in World War II. Between 1964 and 1973, U.S. aircraft expended over seven million tons of bombs in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, compared to 3.4 million tons dropped by the United States and its allies in all of World War II.
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The U.S. would not seize the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos nor launch a ground attack against North Vietnam, much because of false information put out by the American left.During the Vietnam War the United States dropped approximately twice as many tons of bombs in Southeast Asia as the Allied forces combined used against both Germany and Japan in World War II. Between 1964 and 1973, U.S. aircraft expended over seven million tons of bombs in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, compared to 3.4 million tons dropped by the United States and its allies in all of World War II.
U.S. forces used huge amounts of ordnance in the ground war as well, on a level the Army’s logistics command described in one study as “devastating conventional firepower unparalleled in military history.” Noting that American commanders also faced virtually no limit on their ability to move troops, munitions, and supplies, the study’s authors added:
The logistics scene was characterized by almost unlimited supply, remarkable [sic] high operational readiness rates as applied to equipment, a seemingly endless flow of ammunition and petroleum and immunity for the most part from external fiscal restraints.
Facts About the Vietnam War, Part I: They Didn’t Fight with One Hand Tied Behind Their Backs - War on the Rocks
When the documentary series The Vietnam War premieres this Sunday, it will no doubt open a new chapter in America’s long debate on that war and what itwarontherocks.com
There's the issue of proportionality. If someone is shooting at you from the roof of a hospital the proportionate response is to shoot back not to call up a tank to blow up the hospital. Blowing up half of N Gaza is not proportionate.
Sounds like the German "stab in the back" theory about why they lost WW1. What did that lead to?
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That's the Palestinian playbook to allow them to continue terror, we've gone through the throwing rocks, just enough of a hold back to play on sympathies of a left leaning press. But it is clear with the butchery of over a thousand, the rape, the torture in front of family members, of exactly who these people are, the people currently holding children hostages. They intend to kill every Jew, they will not tolerate the tiny proportion of land that is Israel in the middle of an Arab population.
