Reply #11: No

[Chef]

ah, stopped what? Who won? Perhaps we were told we were stopping the spread of world communist domination or whatever. That was the mistake and a lie. We were actually fighting against a group who were intent on national liberation and had been for decades. We could have bombed those people to dust and when we got done the last one of them would have crawled out of some cave and started all over again. This idea that somehow if we just let the military do their thing, we would have won is just plain wrong and a myth.

RVN, 198 Light Infantry Bde, 1/14 Field Artillery, 1969-1970