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In reply to the discussion: What happened after the US ran from Vietnam? n/t [View all]tonyt53
(5,737 posts)2. The North Vietnamese were brutal rulers of the South and thousands in the South were killed.
The North considered those thousands to be sympathetic to the US. The genocide in Cambodia was allowed to begin. And yes, we were keeping Cambodia from being ran by a brutal dictator too. The genocide in Cambodia began shortly after the US pulled out of Vietnam.
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The North Vietnamese were brutal rulers of the South and thousands in the South were killed.
tonyt53
Jul 2016
#2
Estimates are all over the place, but I'd say 500K-750K. BUT that wasn't your original question
tonyt53
Jul 2016
#8
IDK. Humanitarian, maybe? I don't read Vietnamese and so can only rely upon
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#30
It was not our business, so why did we go in? What resources were we wanting to steal
larkrake
Jul 2016
#31
and what would have happened if the 1956 nationwide elections had been allowed to proceed
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2016
#62
LBJ wanted OUT of Vietnam, but he was afraid of being labeled as the president who lost the war,
tblue37
Jul 2016
#106
He'd have them dribbling across the DMZ and all the way downtown to Saigon
pinboy3niner
Jul 2016
#37
Vietnam... you mean the war that LBJ lied the country into with his Gulf of Tonkin bullshit?
cherokeeprogressive
Jul 2016
#23
LBJ's name should forever be tied to The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which was later repealed.
cherokeeprogressive
Jul 2016
#65
Um... Johnson didn't START it, but he never passed up an opportunity to make a buck.
cherokeeprogressive
Jul 2016
#130
I have some Vietnamese students this term and last and I must say they are the
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#33
I learned only many years later that my first radioman killed himself in traffic
pinboy3niner
Jul 2016
#123
Technical Note: the Brits get top billing in Iraq, up until 1945. Sykes-Picot (1922)
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#74
The Vietnamese were free to determine their own future, free of colonial domination.
guillaumeb
Jul 2016
#55
Instead of learning any good lessons, we kept one of the worst - politicians deciding wars and not
Rex
Jul 2016
#76
The many people who helped us were imprisoned under horrendous circumstances, or killed.
mahina
Jul 2016
#77
Seems so. They were my father's friends and family when he was a Ranger with the Jarais.
mahina
Jul 2016
#98
A young visiting Vietnamese priest celebrated mass at my parish yesterday.
phasma ex machina
Jul 2016
#128
O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried' was by far the best novel about the war
pinboy3niner
Jul 2016
#131
Believe it or not, the phenomenon did not begin with Vietnam. After World War II,
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#122
Meta-relevant actually. Had the French not brutally colonized Vietnam for
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#146
Just as I know that turning to Kant for ethical instruction is ill-advised, if
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#151
There are many possible answers to your question depending on which facet you concentrate
stevenleser
Jul 2016
#94
Read KILL ANYTHING THAT MOVES by Jeremy Scahill and only the Khmer Rouge will sound worse than our
yurbud
Jul 2016
#100
human rights and the lives of innocents are at best excuses for our foreign policy
yurbud
Jul 2016
#101
"ran"?????? How about "finally left, in whatever way we could, form this illegal & undeclared war"?
WinkyDink
Jul 2016
#112
I have a very good anti-war friend who served with CIA there in the early years
pinboy3niner
Jul 2016
#118
Sorry, You won the battles, and lost the war. They got their country unified.
sylvanus
Jul 2016
#135
Your post presupposes that Westmoreland's strategy of attrition might have
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#136
You appear to confuse the North's fanaticism with the nationalism of the VietNamese
Albertoo
Jul 2016
#138
Yes. Terrorism by North VN commandos aided by their very few supporters in the South
Albertoo
Jul 2016
#142
Running away is easier than to show that North VietNam was not a fanatical dictatorship
Albertoo
Jul 2016
#155
After the North imposed its totalitarianism, the country became an economic backwater
Albertoo
Jul 2016
#127
So you agree with Reagan that Vietnam was a "noble cause," do you? Ever
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#137