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| Inappropriate 04/06/17 10:11:00 PM #16: | Lorenzo_2003 posted... The more I read about it, the more I question whether it was really a loss, at least in the traditional sense of the word. The US was absolutely devastating the North, even though the US was supposed to be operating in a supporting role to the South. But the South was not holding up its end and was either too corrupt or inept to ever truly take the reigns from their US counterparts. Since the war kept dragging on and on, the American public lost its interest in sending their youth to fight and die, especially when the cause of supporting democracy on the other side of the world lost its appeal. I've spoken to a lot of Vietnam vets and, so far at least, they all said they hated being there but they never thought they were losing, then they just went home. I mean, yeah. The US basically "won" in terms of military strength, but withdrew due to political and social pressure. So it's all a matter of how one defines what winning and losing is. If withdrawing = losing, then the US lost. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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