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re: Another history thread: How did we get involved in the Vietnam War?
Posted on 3/20/15 at 5:03 pm to Scream4LSU
Posted on 3/20/15 at 5:03 pm to Scream4LSU
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Yet if fell two years later? There are two camps on this argument, I'm sure we could argue it all day. If they scaled to the level of the NVA it would maybe of worked. Just my opinion.
Those two years were critical. In that time the Soviets poured mountains of arms and supplies to the North while in that time the liberals in Congress would not even let the South have spare parts to keep their equipment in working order. The bottom like is the North was a vassal of the Soviets, the South was a vassal of the US. The Soviets stood by their vassal while the US abandoned theirs.
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Posted on 3/20/15 at 5:10 pm to Darth_Vader
You don't start a plan that requires long term funding and bail out. Vietnamization wasn't going to be a get it going and they take it over thing. They had no economy to do so. That was the scale comment I made. If the Soviets via China were gonna spend you had to spend.
The same shite storm happened in Iraq. Billions sent there, we train them and bail out and leave them to it. Fell apart in months, run over by some gangs. I'm not even gonna get into the religious implications of internal fighting that undermined that army but in Vietnam they did not want to fight each other, book it. The common people sympathized with the northern guerrillas and the southern government did not have their support.
The same shite storm happened in Iraq. Billions sent there, we train them and bail out and leave them to it. Fell apart in months, run over by some gangs. I'm not even gonna get into the religious implications of internal fighting that undermined that army but in Vietnam they did not want to fight each other, book it. The common people sympathized with the northern guerrillas and the southern government did not have their support.
This post was edited on 3/20/15 at 5:31 pm
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