Vietnam War Question

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(09-28-2017, 07:49 AM)HarleyDog Wrote: In a nutshell, we were not supposed to win it.

Exactly

(10-05-2017, 09:56 AM)grampahol Wrote: Well when you consider most every war is about making money and NOT all the happy horseshit patriotic stuff why wouldn't they want to drag it out as long as possible? Nobody cares that a flag has stripes, stars or polka dots and pictures of clowns.. It's always about the money and by the way, we don't get a cut of the profits. 
And by the way, you know who the most patriotic people in this country are? CAR DEALERS!  Even if they only sell foreign built cars.. 

There's a large element of truth here. The Vietnam war made a lot of people a lot of money.

(10-05-2017, 11:22 AM)Bengalzona Wrote: ^This

Ideally, we wanted the South Vietnamese to do their own fighting and win their own war. And they generally tried to do that. However, there were flaws in their government that undermined everything and tore the South Vietnamese people apart rather than bringing them together (something we in America ought to consider today).

Right, there were a ton of angles, agendas, politics, and so on watering down every aspect of the war.