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Originally Posted by August
Well you may call it revisionism Steve but there are a whole lot of people who feel that war was indeed lost at home.
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Of course it was lost at home. We could have won it hands-down. Then what? Occupy a country that doesn't want us? For how long? Remember Wellington's comments when the British Parliament asked him to take over the War of 1812?
What we did was help out a dictator against a freely elected government (or another dictator, depending on whose version you believe), and whichever you choose it's pointless, because we did it not to help anyone in Vietnam but to fight against "The Godless Communists". We had no business being there in the first place, and the war was lost at home when people began to realize that truth. It wasn't the hippies or the protestors or the draft-dodgers who were the problem - it was the lying, self-serving politicians who, God help us all, probably really believed the lies they told and thought they were doing the right thing.