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From: tac@teldata.UUCP ()
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Subject: Re: Communist Attrocities in Vietnam
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Date: Thu, 7-Jun-84 18:24:18 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  7 18:24:18 1984
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>>  From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
>>  Subject: Re: Communist Attrocities in Vietnam
>>  --
>>  >> ...I am somewhat stunned that people would seriously assign
>>  >> the USA sole responsibility for 2,000,000 Vietnamese deaths. 
>>  >> The USA is responsible for running the war incompetently and
>>  >> for gutlessly abondoning the Vietnamese to communist barbarism.
>>  
>>  I'll buy the "incompetently run", but this statement makes it sound
>>  like the US could easily have won in Vietnam, if only it had really
>>  wanted to.  Well, we could have turned it into a parking lot, but
>>  I doubt we could have won.  It's not like we didn't try, either.
>>  -- 
>>                      *** ***
>>  JE MAINTIENDRAI   ***** *****
>>                   ****** ******    06 Jun 84 [18 Prairial An CXCII]
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>>  
  Obviously the term "won" would have to be defined.  The North Vietnamese
might have been less eager to fight a war on their own soil, however, and
the main cry of incompetance comes from trying to fight a ground war where
you will not cross an imaginary line.  (Now don't take this to imply that
I said we never went over that line, that is not what I said!)  The truely
unfortunate thing is that we did not try to win, Ken, we tried to maintain.
There was what amounted to a civil war being fought.  When you fight the 
entire war in half of the country that is NOT trying to win.  Ah, the (not
so) fond memories talk of the Vietnam Police Action brings back.

  As a question that sticks in my mind, for any of those out there who might
have an answer, try this:

     If what the US did in Vietnam was so bad, why are there
     so many Vietnamese boat people today?

	    From the Soapbox of
	    Tom Condon     {...!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!tac}

	    A War A Day Keeps The Population At Bay.  :-) <--Hey, really!

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