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In reply to the discussion: Is it possible to get redemption after committing a heinous crime...? [View all]AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)THis is a very long war that the US participated for all sorts of fucked up reasons at the very end. In the end, the main ethnic group won and established a hegemony over a rather large bit of land. So far they have held it. The Khmer tried to take back the Mekong Delta in the late 70s. Viet fought back, deposed the Khmer Rouge and they have be quiet ever since. THey even fought a short war with their traditional hegemons, the Han Chinese. The main ethnic group, Kihn or Viet, runs the communist party and is in charge of doling out the spoils, such as they are. The minority groups get shafted - that is why as many as they could got out. This is the way of the world and always will be the way of the world.
So, the US was never going to win that war. ANyone with eyes could see that - and I, with the benefit of hindsight, can see it.