What was the lesson America should have learned from Vietnam?

Answer 1

Invading another country on pretense and as a way to spread democracy is bad.

Answer 2

leave warmaking to the warriors...keep the Robert McNamaras and Nancy Pelosi-types out of the decision making.

our Constitution put civilians in control of the military to prevent a junta from running the country...good plan. liberals have perverted that concept into the ridiculous 'safe-area' sites in VietNam, where we knew the enemy's strength was, and were not allowed to hit them.

same way in the middle east...we know that the mosques are being used as weapons caches and training centers, staging points and indoctrination/recruitment centers, but the liberals in congress interfere with a military operation they could never understand and prevent us from wiping those rat's-nests out.

the lesson: civilian control over policy, military control over the mission.

we haven't learned that yet. Ted Kennedy has now been responsible for more dead GI's ( and one Massachusettes prostitute ) than all of our enemies combined.

Answer 3

The setting up concept for any society is for conflict. The authority of a state over its human beings is living in its conflict coverage. besides, new weapons technologies is gigantic employer and there is not any longer a unmarried weapon that has been invented that has no longer been used. the certainty that u.s. is interior the ascendancy as a international capability focuses interest on them - there have been many empires in the time of background - little question with comparable criticisms geared in direction of them. at the same time as i in my view have not got fun with the assumption of conflict - and that i easily did no longer help this one - differences between the renowned conflict in Iraq and the Vietnam conflict can actually be made. i do no longer think of American society needs to concern yet another protection rigidity debacle as plenty as a results of fact the political motives for invading a sovereign state and occupying it. i do no longer believe my own united states of america (united kingdom) might desire to ever have been in contact in the two Afghanistan or Iraq - partly as a results of fact of our music checklist interior the region - yet on the time protection rigidity action develop into desperate upon my united states of america hadn't been attacked and u.s. had. i assume that itself is the main significant distinction between Iraq and Vietnam.

Answer 4

That treason is a crime and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law . Traitors like John Kerry ..honored in a Communist North Vietnam museum , as a hero of the Vietnam War , who helped them win against America - is comparable to what he and other elected officials ( Pelosi ; Reid ; Kennedy ) have done during this war in Iraq .

Answer 5

Don't let a demoncrat near anyone involved in protecting our country. Vietnam and Iraq should show everyone.

Now, let's look at Desert Storm. How efficient was that fight. I mean the demoncrats were not allowed to get involved for two reasons. 1) It was over so fast that the only thing they could stop was us finishing the job by going into Iraq after Saddam. If our fighters were allowed to just keep going this war would have never happened. But the soldiers had to mass at the border to be safe and that's when the demoncrats seized their opportunity to stop us. 2) Storming Norman wouldn't let them on the battlefield until it was all over. Good for him!

Answer 6

Apparently no one told George. To research the history of the target, to aid a country with a significant rebel force, to make sure that force wanted a democratic government and not just another dictatorship, but with new leadership in charge. No one told him not to go it alone, its too expensive now. To make sure we have accurate timely information, to make sure we have enough linguists and people familiar with the target countries manners and mores.
George doesn't learn well.

You can hate on Kennedy, but Mary Jo wasn't a prostitute Bush One stopped the Gulf War, not the Democrats, read his book
As long as we can blind ourselves to what happens we will never have a clue.

Answer 7

We leaned that you have to give the troops what they need to win,and when they come home treat them with respect.. treat them like hero's, We also learned that Jane Fonda is a trader and should be tried as such, and that no matter what you do including saving people from oppression you can never satisfy a liberal.

Answer 8

Don't run a war based on opinion polls.

Civilian "Experts" are not military "Experts".

Absolute reliance on Technology can be a weakness.

Worry less about how people Feel about your actions and more about the end result of your actions/

There are people in the US who really do want this country to Fail.

Don't abandon your men.

Answer 9

Don't fight a half-assed war. Either do it right, or don't do it at all.

We should have learned it from Korea before Vietnam, but we didn't. WWII was the last war that we fought correctly.

Answer 10

You can't half fight a war. Stop tying the hands of the military and let them do what is necessary for success or get out.