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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LBJ's name should forever be tied to The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which was later repealed.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