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Old April 1st, 2013, 05:58 PM posted to soc.retirement,alt.politics.socialism.trotsky,alt.horror,alt.politics.socialism,rec.travel.europe
David Walters
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Default "..on December 30, 1972, after eleven days of those B-52 attackson the Hanoi area, you had won the war. It was over..."

They had bases, air ops, special ops, etc. throughout and up to
liberation. The "Vietnamesation" of the war was the result of the
military unable to win. But the "2 1/2 years" as you put it was the
result of the DoD having a losing strategy and unable to complete it's
mission...what ever that was at any given time, but generally to keep
the south of Vietnam carved out of the Vietnamese nation. It failed to
do that.

The U.S. lost the war. We tried to dictate to another people how they
should live. We tried to divide a nation in two thinking that a German
or Korean solution was the answer. Our gov't screwed up and should of
learned the *political* lessons of the French defeat.

D.