I guess I will be the odd one here. I disagreed immensely with the war; yet I still volunteered and served my four years. Missed Nam by mere luck of the draw…the Peace Accord was signed while I was in Technical School.
I pointed out that I believed we were fighting the war all wrong. I felt that it should have been fought the way the British dealt with the Malaysian Communist Uprising: send SAS after them and support SF to the hilt.
I also pointed out the example of the American Revolution: partisians fighting and then disappearing into the populace (of whom only 1/3 were sympathetic to the cause anyway).
We seem to be recreating the same issue in Iraq.
[quote]Charlie wrote:
I guess I will be the odd one here. I disagreed immensely with the war; yet I still volunteered and served my four years. Missed Nam by mere luck of the draw…the Peace Accord was signed while I was in Technical School.
I pointed out that I believed we were fighting the war all wrong. I felt that it should have been fought the way the British dealt with the Malaysian Communist Uprising: send SAS after them and support SF to the hilt.
I also pointed out the example of the American Revolution: partisians fighting and then disappearing into the populace (of whom only 1/3 were sympathetic to the cause anyway).
We seem to be recreating the same issue in Iraq. [/quote]
Absolutely, but you’re wrong on the Malaya Emergency. It’s the textbook case of defeating an insurgency, and the key part was isolating the population from the insurgents by providing the people security (very rarely the case in Iraq).
[quote]Mikeyali wrote:
I’m currently winding down in one of my college classes on the Vietnam War. I’m just curious what the average person’s take on it is today. Do you think it was a worthwhile war? Can you admit that we lost? I just want to hear some people other than the 18 year old “daddy is paying my way through college and I adopted my politics from the newest Green Day CD” crowd discuss this.
Mike[/quote]
The war was immoral and unjust. Yes we lost -in a sense. But the land was absolutely destroyed so part of the goals of the corporate community had been reached. If they can’t take them over then destroy them. It’s amazing how many wars and wars by proxy have been initiated by the corporate community.
[quote]Zeppelin795 wrote:
Mikeyali wrote:
I’m currently winding down in one of my college classes on the Vietnam War. I’m just curious what the average person’s take on it is today. Do you think it was a worthwhile war? Can you admit that we lost? I just want to hear some people other than the 18 year old “daddy is paying my way through college and I adopted my politics from the newest Green Day CD” crowd discuss this.
Mike
The war was immoral and unjust. Yes we lost -in a sense. But the land was absolutely destroyed so part of the goals of the corporate community had been reached. If they can’t take them over then destroy them. It’s amazing how many wars and wars by proxy have been initiated by the corporate community.[/quote]
The NVA and VC were immoral and unjust. I cannot believe we actually agree on this. They should have never invaded South Vietnam.