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RainDog

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6. I thought that was a strange title for the video

Reply to kylie5432 (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 22, 2014, 02:16 PM

Jul 2014

apparently it was on PBS as "Two Days" - and the book that inspired the video is focused more on the humans involved - at the end of the video you see people on various sides in the moment who all went to high school together.

I can't tell you why, exactly, the war was lost except to say it was a product of the era in which it was created, and that era grossly overestimated the power of the soviet military while underestimating the power of a message about self-determination after colonialism.

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Why America Lost the Vietnam War [View all] RainDog Jul 2014 OP

We Weren't Trying to Win liberalmike27 Jul 2014 #1

We lost for the same reason the British lost that continental fracas circa 1770's n/t sarge43 Jul 2014 #2

Thats not why we lost kylie5432 Jul 2014 #3

I thought that was a strange title for the video RainDog Jul 2014 #6

Reasons for the loss, we did not kill all Vietnamese, because that's the only way we could have won. 4bucksagallon Jul 2014 #9

Very powerful film. CanSocDem Jul 2014 #4

I thought it was powerful, too RainDog Jul 2014 #7

In the book "We Were Soldiers Once . . . And Young", Gen. Moore notes the Vietnamese felt victorious tclambert Jul 2014 #5

America was trying to win Vietnam? News to me. I thought they were just looting the Treasury. valerief Jul 2014 #8

Thank you for this important document of our era... MrMickeysMom Jul 2014 #10

Marked for later. pam4water Jul 2014 #11