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kylie5432

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3. Thats not why we lost

Tue Jul 22, 2014, 10:25 AM

Jul 2014

We lost because

1) We didn't respect the enemy or its abilities in the field. Note: Kissinger referred to North Vietnam as a 4th rate power. McNamara had a "formula" called the body count that he was certain would win the war- it didn't. We lost 58,000 they lost about 2 million and we still lost. We failed to understand that you can't use conventional tactics against guerrilla warriors.

2) We brutalized civilians: See Nick Turse's book Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam. If you think My Lai was an aberration, you are mistaken.

3) We could have negotiated Vietnamese independence after WW I but didn't. We didn't need to be in that war.

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Why America Lost the Vietnam War [View all] RainDog Jul 2014 OP

We Weren't Trying to Win liberalmike27 Jul 2014 #1

We lost for the same reason the British lost that continental fracas circa 1770's n/t sarge43 Jul 2014 #2

Thats not why we lost kylie5432 Jul 2014 #3

I thought that was a strange title for the video RainDog Jul 2014 #6

Reasons for the loss, we did not kill all Vietnamese, because that's the only way we could have won. 4bucksagallon Jul 2014 #9

Very powerful film. CanSocDem Jul 2014 #4

I thought it was powerful, too RainDog Jul 2014 #7

In the book "We Were Soldiers Once . . . And Young", Gen. Moore notes the Vietnamese felt victorious tclambert Jul 2014 #5

America was trying to win Vietnam? News to me. I thought they were just looting the Treasury. valerief Jul 2014 #8

Thank you for this important document of our era... MrMickeysMom Jul 2014 #10

Marked for later. pam4water Jul 2014 #11