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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
Gonative; The US military didn't loose a battle in Vietnam, the American people forced the government to withdraw because they thought it was wrong to be over there. The irony is that now Vietnam wants us back because we spend money.
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So?
War isn't a sport. America lost because the Vietnamese outsmarted the Americans via better understanding of war. The Vietnamese knew they couldn't outfight the Americans so they adopted a strategy to outlast them.
lol... losing a war isn't like losing a football game.
And while it's ironic that Vietnam is opening itself up to the West for tourism in a sense. It's actually just how it is. I mean what should they do? Close up and be like North Korea?
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Serbiangirl; As high as our Debt may be we can pay it off easily enough, if we just focused. Too many corrupt politicians. The army is the best trained and equipt, I'm ex army and I believed full bore in what I was doing and why, no problem, no regrets.
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lol... way to not know what you're talking about.
The US debt is so large that even cutting ALL defence spending will not make up the deficit.
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Our troops are volunteers, they do what they do because they WANT to. The point I was makeing about Location is this, it wouldn't matter what nation was the US. It could be the islamic republic of serbia for all that...the fact that it is a continant containing 25%+ of the worlds resources with two oceans seperateing it from everyone else is what would dicatate much of it's power base.
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Where did you get this statistic? 25% of the world's resources? I've never heard this before in all my studies and regarding the mainstream media. Frankly I just don't buy it unless you can give me some sort of credible source.
EDIT- I googled it.. The US
CONSUMES 25% of the world's resources. It doesn't
HAVE 25% of the world's resources lol.