5th May 2005, 11:44 AM
If you believe that, DJ, you're crazy. We lost. It was pretty much an impossible war to win. Leaving, and letting the other side take over the country you were trying to "protect" (not that there was much of any of that going on), is losing. Sure, we won the battles, but there was no way to win the war... it just took a really long time for the US to admit it and give up.
So many problems... starting with misunderstanding Ho Chi Minh (he was a communist, yes, but he was a nationalist first... we didn't seem to understand that...) and going from there...
So many problems... starting with misunderstanding Ho Chi Minh (he was a communist, yes, but he was a nationalist first... we didn't seem to understand that...) and going from there...