Why America Lost the Vietnam War

[liberalmike27]

1. We Weren't Trying to Win

We do better when we're razed Earth--we lost because we stuck ourselves in the center of a civil war. That is a prescription for disaster, and amounts to being in the center of a shooting gallery from both sides.

And we keep doing it--it was way more clear in WW2--we killed Germans, Japanese, and Italians.

We chose a side in Vietnam, or created two sides in a country with one maybe, or the French did. I think it's pretty clear the South side we'd created didn't have their heart in it, and were more comfortable just going along with whatever form of Communism they would have ended up with, that fighting their relatives in the North. We've mucked up Iraq now, we've released all these factions that were once under at least "some" kind of control. Even Bush's father, and Cheney at the time, realized that--it's why they stopped and left Saddam in power. Better the devil you know.