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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
Ronin; I'm not "hurt" that the US left South vietnam to fend for itself and that it lost soon after. I'm dissapointed that the US polotical bosses didn't have the toughness required to beat an insurrection of that type. They are beatable. just takes longer and more personal than we wanted to involve.
As to how the vets feel and how they were treated, yes I agree they were mistreated. Yes some have nightmares about it. Yes the fighting was a tough slog.
My Comment about today is that aside from those vets, the war's effect on the US is exstreamly limited because it was all fought in Vietnam, thus the physical and emotional damage vietnam took full bore. The USA did not.The average American under the age of 30 probably doesn't even care.
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No your main thrust on this Vietnam tangent was that the USA lost the war because it "had it's arm tied behind it's back" as though it was some kind of football match.
My point was that war is not like a football match and how you fight depends on the conditions for victory and as well as the conditions of the battlefield.
Despite the inferioir training and equipment, the Vietnamese fought to the conditions better than the Americans.