40 Years After the Fall of Saigon (death, high school, politicians, money)

[Spikett]

Hard to believe it's been 40 years. How do you feel about the Vietnam War? Have your feelings changed over the years?

[PullMyFinger]

Originally Posted by Spikett

Hard to believe it's been 40 years. How do you feel about the Vietnam War? Have your feelings changed over the years?

The first war that was fought with politically correct rules.

And we lost it. Enough said.

Tells you about the future of this country.

[VJDAY81445]

We fought WWII to the finish and won.

The last war that the US won because every war since has been/will be a "pc" war that ends with a treaty that could be written on toilet paper.

[TheWiseWino]

Originally Posted by PullMyFinger

The first war that was fought with politically correct rules.

All modern wars have been fought with politically correct rules.

And we lost it. Enough said.

Pretty much.

[TheWiseWino]

Originally Posted by VJDAY81445

We fought WWII to the finish and won.

WWII had a finish to be won.

The last war that the US won because every war since has been/will be a "pc" war that ends with a treaty that could be written on toilet paper.

An interesting perspective seeing how every war since, can trace its genesis in the last one.

[Phil P]

I think the world is a WHOLE lot different today without all those dicey cold war threats being around. I think Vietnam was an example of what we should not have to do in today's world.

[No_Recess]

Originally Posted by Spikett

Hard to believe it's been 40 years. How do you feel about the Vietnam War? Have your feelings changed over the years?

Not old enough to recall it.

I'll go out on a limb and say it was just like all the other wars in history: a money-making scheme.

[rbohm]

vietnam was a war in which our politicians gave up. for instance when we were bombing the north heavily during the nixon administration, jiap said late that the north was within three days of surrendering the war.

that war, and the korean war, and as noted just about every war since has been fought not to win overall, but rather to achieve some objective, and when the public, or rather the anti war protesters, decide they have had enough of the war, they demand our government end the war, and usually our government caves.

[burdell]

Originally Posted by Spikett

Hard to believe it's been 40 years. How do you feel about the Vietnam War? Have your feelings changed over the years?

As a junior in high school in 1965 I was opposed to LBJ sending combat troops and my feelings have never changed. It was a useless war of choice with nothing for the US to win. Given the combined land masses and populations of the COMMUNIST! USSR and China at the time I never bought into the 'Domino Theory' BS that Vietnam and the rest of SE Asia going COMMUNIST! represented much of an increased threat to the US.

I believe it to be and likely to remain the biggest US foreign policy debacle in my lifetime.

[Old Gringo]

A total waste that accomplished nothing but death and destruction with the commies ultimately winning it all after we finally figured out it wasn't worth it and came home.