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Because American leftist commie hugging bastards demonstrated against the war, weakening US resolve and strengthening the will of the enemy.
Hogwash.
"Military is an extension of politics by other means". Not the other way around. And the politics of Vietnam stank.
Vietnam was not winnable. Period. It's not a matter of "wherewithal" or resolve. It's a matter of: we were in the wrong place doing the wrong thing, and were destined to fail.
And I fear the same in Iraq.
So many right wingers think that somehow America failed in Vietnam because of dissent to the war in America.
Huh?
Are they saying that dissent is bad? I for one believe that America--dissent and all--is a GOOD system. Dissent is a bedrock of our strength.
People dissented to the war in Vietnam. That dissent was an expression of the will of a segment of the American population. Expression of dissent is not only a right, it's a strength.
Why would someone think that "Vietnam was winnable if only America wasn't America"? America IS America. Thank God. And the beautiful, dissenting masses of Americans who helped stop the war in Vietnam are heroes.
As are those who did their duties in Vietnam by fighting and dying.
And in the final analysis, the fighting, dissenting, arguing, loud, disturbed mass of humanity that was America in the 1960s-1970s came to the only conclusion possible and did not the right thing, but the only thing: we withdrew from Vietnam.
Right wingers would turn America into a (North Vietnam or Iraq-like) country which doesn't allow dissent in order to fight for the Vietnamese or Iraqi ...uh...right to dissent.
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