Why America Lost the Vietnam War

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

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John Pilger - Vietnam - The Quiet Mutiny [1970]



Five Marines from the battalion were responsible for the only war crime attributable to the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. On 19 February 1970, in the village of Son Thang-4 just southwest of Danang, a five man patrol from the unit executed five women and eleven children. One member of the team was convicted of premeditated murder.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Battalion_7th_Marines#Vietnam_War
http://web.law.duke.edu/lens/publications/050698
Did Military Justice Fail or Prevail?
The first time I ever heard of Ollie North.
"Assisting the defense team in every way possible was First Lt. Oliver L. North, whose life Herrod had saved some months earlier. Herrod was tried by a panel of seven officers - a colonel, lieutenant colonel, four majors, and a captain(28) - all of whom had combat experience. In North's view, this was advantageous to the accused, because "only men who had served in combat could appreciate the pressures that Herrod must have been under.&quot 29)"

The Vietnamese fought to win like Americans would fight if our country was ever occupied.
I was a grunt in B Company 7th Marines. We employed these KT's (killer teams) nightly while I was with the company. We were operating in a free fire zone where all "farmers, crops, civilians and livestock" were considered enemy. The domino theory turned out to be total BS.