Re: What's going on in Scandinavia, North Atlantic, Baltic States and Scotland?
Reply #165 –
You were supposed to be there on high sounding morals and the usual contradiction.
Just because your old needle is stuck in that record's groove doesn't make it important, RJ.
Many mistakes were made (again, by both sides…) in Viet Nam. (And I don't mean "mistakes" as a euphemism.)
I'll say it again, because you seem to have missed it: Our worst act was abandoning South Vietnam when mere dollars would have likely given them victory and security in their country.
The Russian tanks that invaded the south after our retreat could have been countered. (At least, you remember Tet fairly well…so you know what well-trained troops can do, if they're supplied.)
Is it fair to say that you don't believe the war itself (in its various stages) was a useless abomination? Just bungled… (Please explain to ersi why! I haven't the heart.)
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BTW: Forget the conscript trope. That's been the way of most of the world for most of recorded history. It means little; and most people who'd use it do so only to resort to calumnies about all-volunteer forces…