[Rhodes22-list] War - Last Reading Assignment

[Brad Haslett]

Rummy,

What "Stormin' Norman" said was that we never should have taken the war on
as our own fight to begin with. He thought the South fought bravely and
deserved our support. During the escalation between 1965 and 1968, we quit
working alongside their soldiers and isolated ourselves.  Gen. Abrams
changed that but by then the war was lost on US soil in public support.
There will never be a consensus on Vietnam, but this is certain, when we
pulled the funding, South Vietnam fell and 3 million Vietnamese were killed,
not the 300,000 young John Kerry predicted. To say that the Iraqi's aren't
willing to fight for their freedom is a bit cynical.  Seventeen million men
and women voted in three elections at great personal risk.  Go read the 203
page review of our efforts in Military Review that I posted and then
convince me the Iraqi Army isn't willing to fight.

Brad


On 1/12/07, R22RumRunner at aol.com <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Brad,
> Someone's trying to rewrite the history of the Vietnam war. We didn't quit
> fighting alongside the ARVN, we handed the war over to them and quietly
> got our
> troops out of there. It was obvious to everyone in the military that ARVN
> troops  didn't have the stomach for the fight. It's pretty much the same
> way in
> Iraq. If  you don't want to fight for your freedom, you gets what you get.
>
> Rummy
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