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Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by binkman
Wasn't aware I was Lyndon banes Johnson so I didn't lose anything. and Vietnam was a limited conflict because Johnson didn't want Russia to go nuclear since they were suppling the Viet Cong with weapons and Russian boots on the ground.
And the only people who "rewrite history" are leftists.edit on 11-8-2012 by neo96 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by TDawgRex
Truth be told...if you were a actual history buff...the US kicked their butt. We didn't run. We pulled out because the American populace wanted it.
Originally posted by TDawgRex
Who the hell is teaching you history? The cookie monster?
Vietnam War The concept of limited war was also used in the Vietnam War by the United States under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson as part of a strategy to contain the spread of Communism without provoking a wider confrontation with the Soviet Union.
A limited war is a conflict in which the belligerents participating in the war do not expend all of each of the participants' available resources at their disposal, whether human, industrial, agricultural, military, natural, technological, or otherwise in a specific conflict.
Originally posted by binkman
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by binkman
Lets get this straight the left of that era cut and run from Vietanam the battles were won by America but like I said already the Us has not fought any "War" with its full military might since ww2 the micro managing of Johnson is the same thing with the micro managing and stupid rules of engagement that we current saw in Iraq and Afghanistan and the left true to form cut and ran from Iraq and sure the hell doesn't know what it doing it Afghanistan.
YOU LOST THE VIETNAM WAR. YOU WERE RUN OUT OF VIETNAM BY THE NORTH VIETNAMESE DESPITE BRINGING ALL OF YOUR MILITARY ¨MIGHT¨ TO BEAR.
Stop trying to rewrite history, it´s a disgusting trait you Americans have.
Originally posted by neo96
But that isn't the military's fault that is the asinine,stupid civilian leadership to get straight to the point the US military has never lost a war.
Your troops could not fight in the jungle.
Funny, because at the same time, this thing called the Malaysian Emergency was going on, picture if you will, the same scenario, but in Malaysia. Communist groups, looking to overthrow the government. Britain managed to succeed with less than half the number of troops the US had in less than half the time. And Malaysia remains a stable democracy, unlike the Communist state of Vietnam.
Originally posted by TDawgRex
One word...and it is quite true.
Whateva.
You are apparently not a student of history.
Originally posted by neo96
Yeah Yeah whatever
Originally posted by binkman
Originally posted by TDawgRex
Truth be told...if you were a actual history buff...the US kicked their butt. We didn't run. We pulled out because the American populace wanted it.
Oh right, thatś why Vietnam is a democracy now. Oh hang on, the north took over and now Vietnam is a communist state.
Why do you yanks love rewriting history?
Originally posted by TDawgRex
Who the hell is teaching you history? The cookie monster?
I love the fact that yanks have absolutely no understanding of Irony. It makes laughing at your collective ineptitude all the sweeter.
Originally posted by binkman
Originally posted by neo96
Yeah Yeah whatever
Yank number 2 says ¨Whatever¨ as well.
Note to all foreigners: whenever confronted with a painfully uneducated yet stupidly self assured yank, just tell them the truth, they can´t handle it.
Originally posted by beezzer
Man oh man!
The hate rolling off these cyber pages is just astounding!
It must irritate the haters to no end when they receive medicines created by Americans.
When they use electronics, invented by Americans.
When they watch programmes created by Americans.
Enjoy movies by Americans.
Receive foreign aid given to them by American tax payers.
I hope it bothers them, but I doubt that it does. The haters would rather steal all that we've created, invented and use it to destroy us rather than look in appreciation.
I truely wonder if the hate isn't "envy-driven".
Originally posted by TDawgRex
You do realize that Vietnam is actively courting US bases there...again. Don't you? They’re scared of China and are looking now for a possible protector.
Originally posted by TDawgRex
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Sound familiar?
Originally posted by TDawgRex
And that they are realizing that the Marxist paradigm is not working as planned?
Originally posted by TDawgRex
The North Vietnamese military leadership admitted that they could not take on the US even in a limited capacity, which the US actually fought.
Originally posted by TDawgRex
If the US fought Vietnam as they did WW2, China would be scared [snip]less. Heck, history already shows that they already are.
Originally posted by TDawgRex
Where's that collective now?
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by binkman
Seems to me the only people who call Americans yanks are the ones who got their butts kicked by them,
Guess some people are still mad that a bunch of farmers kicked their butts back to England.edit on 11-8-2012 by neo96 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by binkman
Originally posted by TDawgRex
One word...and it is quite true.
Whateva.
You are apparently not a student of history.
Said by the man convinced his country won the Vietnamese war.
Originally posted by Drunkenparrot
reply to post by binkman
The NVA did not defeat the U.S. military, the NVA defeated the ARVN.
The U.S. decidedly won every substantial military engagement with either the NVA or its Vietcong proxy between 1965 and 1973.
The U.S. had been long gone for 2 years when Saigon fell.
It is impossible to take your point seriously if you don't understand the historical events you are trying to comment on.