Hi, JOHN FITZGERALD!   
   I read your message from 14.08.2013 23:51   
      
    AK>> ;=) Well, well, who doubts around the world that American history   
    AK>> books tell that the Vietnam war was victorious for the US?   
    AK>> Propaganda doesn't allow the opposite, especially if the opposite   
    AK>> is humiliating.   
      
    JF> Actually, American history books do not describe Vietnam as a   
    JF> victory for America. And we know the US lost the war. Not all know   
    JF> it, but most of us do.   
      
      
    JF> We could have won that war if we 'wanted to'. Do you really think   
    JF> we "lost" the war because the Viet Cong had a more formidable   
    JF> military the the U. S.? We could have wiped them out any time we   
    JF> pleased.   
      
      Good argument, of a computer gamer. ;-/ But even then it would not   
   have been a victory -- only a terrific crime. Although, the US   
   government anyway had committed a terrific crime when it killed and   
   poisoned millions of Vietnamese and lost hundreds of thousand simple   
   Americans which died for actually for nothing. Because there were no any   
   serious reason that could justify such a bloodshed from the side of the   
   US.   
      
    JF> Why didn't we? Do the math. It was not economically feasible for   
    JF> the U. S. to pursue the war any further. The Viet Nam war was waged   
    JF> simply to gauge Soviet response and to keep tabs on their military   
    JF> capabilities. During that war 100's of newly developed weapons were   
    JF> beta tested. Esp as concerns the Air Force. Same with the (then) U.   
    JF> S. S. R. What a wonderful world...   
      
      But too many American understood that the US had no business in   
   Vietnam to spill so much blood of young Americans. But how much   
   repression felt those who protested against the Vietnam war!   
      
   Bye, JOHN!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   fido7.debate 2013   
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