ywiy (September 3, 2008 at 7:26 pm)

Well, take a look at the hundreds of scared, well fed, fresh off the ship US marines vs the sick, hungry, and dying japanese in WWII.

kuknacka (September 2, 2008 at 6:47 pm)

those last 2 word were a joke, so no hard feelings, right

kuknacka (September 2, 2008 at 6:46 pm)

why dont just say: long live our once beloved earth. may it be peace on earth sieg heil!

VIETs0lDi3r (August 31, 2008 at 10:07 pm)

2 all u people out there and SOUTH VIETS HVE RESPECT 4 ur fallen soldiers that fought 4 our once beloved country! long live the ARVN, long live SAIGON, and last of all LONG LIVE VIETNAM CONG HOA!!!!

nhocconsieuquay (August 26, 2008 at 4:32 pm)

vietcong like shit

anonymous10567 (August 25, 2008 at 3:26 am)

We destroyed so much of Vietnamese infrastructure that even well after our withdrawal their economy was one of the worst in the world. Their recovery was commendable, as have been their efforts to rejoin the brotherhood of nations. Our involvement in Vietnam is today a shameful memory, but for the wrong reasons. We are ashamed because we failed to crush the Vietnamese people. We should be ashamed because we attacked a democratic nation with a freely elected leader because they were communists.

anonymous10567 (August 25, 2008 at 3:19 am)

And the last was the preservation of South Vietnamese democracy. South Vietnam was never a democracy, to be blunt and concise. Theirs was a puppet government. The Vietnamese hated us because we engaged in unrestrained warfare against their soldiers and civilians alike. Our basic goal was the suppression of their freedom of choice, simply because they had chosen communism. Ironic, since most Americans assumed we were liberating the Vietnamese.

anonymous10567 (August 25, 2008 at 3:16 am)

Essentially, several political arguments were made for our going to war. One was that a communist Vietnam would ally itself with China and dominate Southeast Asia. This was baseless; Vietnam and China had long been at odds, and continued to be even after Vietnam adopted a communist government. Another was the 'domino effect' - one nation after another would fall to the unbroken force of communist revolution. This was also proven false by what we saw after Vietnam; no communist spread occurred.

anonymous10567 (August 25, 2008 at 3:07 am)

And then, as if that weren't enough, we invented a provocation for entering the war; attacks on our destroyers in the Tonkin Gulf. One isolated incident actually happened, but the incident that officially provoked the war was in fact a well-crafted fiction presented by Robert McNamara, the architect of our firebombing campaigns over Japan (which, albeit effective, also killed numerous civilians indiscriminately).

anonymous10567 (August 25, 2008 at 3:04 am)

The point is that we intervened on behalf of the French, who had held down an oppressive colonial empire prior to World War II and now wanted our intervention because they were too weak to control Vietnam. We propped up a pro-U.S. dictator in South Vietnam, against a democratically elected communist, Ho Chi Minh, who Woodrow Wilson had made enemies with almost 50 years prior.