Does anyone remember the Vietnam War the democrats put us in? 58,000 plus lost lives and we lost.?

Question

republicans are repeating this? We lost 3,ooo here in NYC and now they are looking to wipe us off the map. A little different scenario.

eejones I totally agree.

Answer 1

How could I forget? I was born in 1949 so I had to enlist in the US Navy in 1969 in order to avoid being drafted into the US Army, shipped to Vietnam to get my head blown off by a Viet Cong. It was not something I had planned on doing while I was a kid growing up.

Answer 2

Actually, you are right (and I am a liberal democrat). The Democrats that have gotten us into the Korean War and Viet Nam War, believed in the policy of 'limited warfare', which means that we try to stamp out these little smouldering embers before a forest fire starts. Unfortunately, this does not work. How ever, the Viet Nam War did have this effect on the cold war; it told the communists how much we were willing to commit to a conflict, once we are in it. This was what helped destroy the economy of the USSR, and it fell. They knew that there was no way that they could keep up, once we were commited to a cause, whether it was popular or not. We did not lose the Viet Nam War. We never surrendered. We won all the battles. But the American people got tired of no real victory in sight, so we got out. The current war we are in is quite different. The Taliban government that was in power until we invaded after 9/11, was not made up of just Afghans. It was made up of Islamic Jihadist Fundamentalists from all over the world. We invaded Afghanistan, not to fight the Afghans, but the Taliban, that was doing all it could to help Al-Qaeda in its war against anyone that disagreed with them, including Muslims. Only history will tell us if going to Iraq was the right decission. But if we had not, I believe that Sadam would have eventually given them aid and comfort, and that they would eventually align themselves with Iran. Syria would still be the go-between, and we would have had a much bigger problem now. Granted, Sadam never had any connection to terrorist attacks against the USA, he did have complicity in attacks on Israel and payed the families of homicide bombers (I refuse to call them 'suicide bombers') the equivalent of $10,000.

Answer 3

I'm glad that we are taking the fight to them vice staring from afar hoping that we are left to live in peace. It takes some proactive leadership to eliminate this threat. Something that our former presidency half-assed amid multiple scandals and other tom-foolery. I pray everyday that our young men and women make it through another day over there. The threat is real and it permeates throughout the region. I'm not totally convinced that the war in Iraq was unjustified, but that question is now a moot point. We have a responsibility to complete the task at hand. Otherwise, we will end up costing many more lives (like in the first Gulf War when we didn't follow through) and risk having to do it all over again in another decade or so.

Answer 4

The statistics that you have shown for the Vietnam War are accurate.

JFK started American involvement, Johnson creme-puffed it, making it a political exercise. Richard Nixon fought it hard, but after his resignation, Ford creme-puffed it again and acted like we couldn't win it, so we shouldn't fight it.

58K+ men and women lost their lives in that conflict, but the sad fact is, that America WON the Vietnam War.

The objective of that entire 15 year conflict (American involvement began clandestinely in 1960, last Americans left in 1975), was to prevent the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia. And after North Vietnam assimilated the South, no other SE Asian nation adopted Soviet Communism as a form of government.

We won the war.

But we lost the battle.

Answer 5

Ya.. good 'ol LBJ.. There's more to it than that. There is a lot to it. Have you done your homework? The French ect. What really got me was when tricky Dick (Nixon) pulled us out to get re-elected. The N. was really China.. Endless supply of men n stuff. Wonder why no one asks about the Korean war? Guess that's why it's called the forgotten war.

Answer 6

No. I wasn't born until 1974.

My father fought in Vietnam from '66-72.

Answer 7

Does anyone remember it was the republicans who cut and run on 30th April 1975. ( Vietnam ) Stay tuned! Watch the republicans cut and run again from Iraq. ( Of course the reason they will run is because the Iraq war is wrong........Like Vietnam was wrong.)

Answer 8

Yes. That's why I don't believe the Democrats when they claim they will get us out of Iraq if elected. They will be too afraid of looking weak. Ironically, only a Republican will get us out.... 10 years from now.

Answer 9

your point is?? If JFK hadnot been murdered , he would have had a short little war and gotten u.s. out of there.. LBJ wanted to submit to the u.n. and let the u.n. dictate how we could fight and the fact we could not go into cambodia or n.vietnam.. Get the damn dems out of the way and run the u.n. out of town and we can end this petty little muslim terrorism thing in short order!

Answer 10

So now the Republicans have us in this war and your point is???
So far over 2.700 Americans died ...tell me for what?? Over 80,000 wounded with no governtment funding. Lets not for get the 200,000 innocent civilians that have been killed in that country.