From: SUBTILE-AT-aol.com Date: Sat, 13 Aug 94 03:15:16 EDT Subject: Enough Vietnam nonsense already! In response to: The Us lost the war in Viet-nam. The US did everything it could to win the war short of Invading the North. It did not do that for fear of China/Russia. The US remimbered what happened in Koria. Also Nixon thought about using Nucliar weopons but did not in part because of the anti-war movement. Imperialism may be powerful but it is not God the struggle of the people around the world keep the US from doing somethings But it was mainly the vietnamese people who to their eternal glory defeated US. I get into debates about this subject all the time. Nobody has yet to explain to my satisfaction WHAT WOULD HAVE COUNTED AS "WINNING THE WAR" for the US. Was there a realistically-expectable state of affairs that the Commander-in-Chief or anyone within his web of secrecy COULD HAVE counted as "winning the Vietnam conflict"? Does anyone here want to discuss, for instance, the purpose of spending all those lives and dollars defending the northwest corner of Quang Tri province? Huh? The deeper any of you get into this, the more you will discover the meandering nature of the "purpose" of the war. The slippery slope provided by the lack of a stable notion of "winning the war" provided an ideological context which helped Nixon justify Vietnamization policy and the Paris Peace Accords. Now wasn't that "winning the war"? If you say "no," then JUSTIFY YOUR POSITION WITH FACTUAL EVIDENCE. -Samuel Day Fassbinder
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