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the united states military did not lose the war in viet nam
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Greyrider, you were there I was not and I respect that, but even though the US didn't lose, the US did not win either. I have seen plenty of TV documentaries on Vietnam, they all say the same thing, the Viet Cong sent the US packing. As they knew all they had to do was to keep maiming and killing as many troops as possible and eventually the American will to fight would crumble which it did as you described public support for the war effort dropped off due to the casualties and the high taxes of funding the south. Therefore, they were sucessful.
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they begged the US to stop the bombing in private, begged!
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Considering part of that bombing consisted of dropping napalm all over the place I am not surprised they begged it to be stopped. I would have begged too if I had the misfortune to be in their position. Especially as Vietnam was primarily an agriculture based place.
But coming back to the point of this thread, I live in the south wales area, one of the captured sailors is a local lad from around here. He was featured in the Evening Post a couple of nights ago. It was a terrible thing that happened Vietnam, and I dislike war and fighting immensely, but by the same token I do accept that it has to be done. I think its high time Iran was made to release those men, or make their demands and get it over with, but this standoff is very irritating, and I feel dreadfully sorry for those men being held captive, I hope and pray they are being treated reasonably well.