 | Subject: Vietnam ProtestorsPosted by Doug Robb Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 21:44:24 Message: I appreciate reading your account of the Chinese assault on the Chosin reservior. I do take exception to your characterization of all Vietnam War Protestors. I grew up in State College, Pa., and had the occassion to talk to many returning Vietnam veterans. Most were volunteers, and were not draftees. And I also lived accross the street from a Master Sargeant in the US Army who did three combat tours in Vietnam. These veterans almost unanimously agreed and told me in no uncertain terms that our involvement in Vietnam was a mistake, and that the military's conduct in the war was fragmented, poorly conceived and led, and represented at best a no win situation for South Vietnam since their army and their leadership had neither the will or the determination to achieve any kind of lasting US victory in Vietnam. My support for ending our involvement in Vietnam was based on the opinions of these combat veterans who specifically persuaded me that my initial support for the war was ill-founded and based on outright distortions and lies perpetrated by the Johnson administration to escalate the war. These opinions given to me were by individuals whom i trusted entirely on the basis of their patriotism, their integrity, and their love for their country. | |
 | RE: Vietnam Protestors Posted by Greg Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 18:46:45 Message: Protestors? Didn't they teach spelling in State College, PA? The word is Protesters. You might learn the basics before lecturing to the rest of us. | |
| RE: Vietnam Protestors Posted by Bert Monday, October 15, 2007 at 20:28:41 Message: Hi Doug, Read my url on the subject. http://www.kmike.com/VietnamProtesters.htm For sure the Johnson administration kept us from winning the war in Vietnam, and for sure the democrat congress lost it in the end, by refusing to honor our guarantees of support for South Korea should the North again attack. But the war could definitely have been won, and the American fighting forces were definitely good enough to win it. As for the South Vietnamese leadership, in the final analysis they had a lot more will and determination than our own media, our own intellectual elite, and our own pathetic government. jmo. Bert | |