Originally posted by rpm371
Were any of you guys around during Vietnam? Hell, Walter Freakin' Cronkite said the War was a lost cause and we should pull out. A vet protesting more poeple being sent off to die in a hopeless battle is not only doing what needs to be done, he is doing his patriotic duty. I suppose you guys think we should have kept pouring more boys in there to be killed. What a bunch of Keyboard Heroes you are.
There are people today that feel the same about the Afganistan war and the Iraq war. There are people that felt that way about WW1 and WW2.
There is a pretty good argument that if the US armed forces had been freed from political interference they could have militarily defeated the North in 1967.
The problem then was the US was actually fighting the Russians and the Chinese and they did not want to esculate the war to include attacks on the supply ships and trains etc as it may have spiraled out of control.
However the cold war was being fought in Vietnam and the countries that became communiest during that time are still some of the worst basket cases in Asia today. Vietnam was not all bad nor was it fought properly. I would have been against the way the war was being fought (why not friggen bomb the hell out of the Ho Chi Min trail in Laos or Cambodia and anywhere else supply was coming from). It was wrong to put soldiers lives in danger for political cowardice. If you are going to fight a war then fight it to win. If not get out. For that reason I could identify with some of the arguments against the war.