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Fred, this isn't Vietnam, #48001
Posted by Wes Clark on December 7, 2005 - 4:01pm.
Fred, this isn't Vietnam, every case is always different. I do believe if we follow the ideas I sketched out that we can avert a civil war and avoid an American defeat. Vietnam was a defeat. We shouldn't forget that. I was a Captain at Fort Leavenworth when Saigon fell, I was with a class of 1200 officers. The Vietnamese officers immediately left to become waiters in local restaruants, for they had no money. The Cambodian officers went home, and were later killed, I heard, and as for the Americans - well, we cried. It had been long and hard, and futile ultimately.

I can talk for a long time about why we failed. It wasn't inevitable. It really wasn't. Read the new book, Mao, the Unknown Story, for a different take.

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