[extropy-chat] Samantha, i read your message very carefully-- it is poignant, very important

[J. Andrew Rogers]

Dirk wrote:
> Why did the US lose the Vietnam War?


The US didn't lose the war in any military sense -- it was all but over
when the US withdrew.  The US walked away when all that was left was to
mop up, for complicated political reasons.  Even the communist
government of North Viet Nam agrees on that point in their official
history of the war.  Two more years and it would have very likely been
officially "over".  Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and all that.

For various reasons, the South Vietnamese could not hold it together on
their own, despite the fact that we left them in a clearly dominant
position.


j. andrew rogers