Oh man! Whoa! Zing! Look at @guest! Got America good! “Lost the Vietnam war.” Lost Korea too. France lost their Vietnam war too, but we don’t speak the same language oddly enough. I’m pretty sure whatever country your from has lost some wars. You know who we speak almost the same language as? The brits. I wonder if that’s because they speak “lost the American Revolution?” Of course Vietnam was a civil war- so really America didn’t lose so much as the South Vietnamese government, Montagnards, and certain other groups lost. I wonder if they would find your comments as funny as I do? We should go find some who weren’t tortured and excited or imprisoned. The ones who fled their home after a bloody war tore apart their country and families. But yeah- like everything else Vietnam is all about America. I’m sure you wouldn’t concern yourself with the Vietnamese themselves or any of the other issues or history surrounding the event.
I agree with guest_ completely. I've found on other sites such as Quora that America is the one who lost the Vietnam war, and i defend our country there to. We cant lose a war when we never even signed an unconditional surrender for example, Germany in WWI. The V.C. lost 5x the amount of foot solders than all of allied nations deaths. All the U.S. did was withdraw from the country to avoid losing unnecessary casualties since it wasn't even a very supported war with congress anyways . If the DoD had full backing, We would have wiped the V.C. off the map. Even if the V.C.s had a standing chance, America would have won tactically because winning the battle doesn't mean you won the war, America was technologically superior. I hear you "But beary, the V.C. had guns that never jammed nor overheated while all Americans had was jammed, plastic pieces of shit". Well guess what asshole, we had a beautiful concoction of chemicals that lit on fire when it contacts air which then lights to about
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2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (About 1,200 degrees Celsius). Now cover that all over a hill, also covered by about 800-1200 angry terrorist that just wanna shoot and kill you so they can see their family again. With full congress backing, the war would have been a "ez no re" situation.
The US could have won Vietnam. A combination of external and internal factors combined to create a protracted and bloody war that ultimate cost the people of the United States and Vietnam dearly. At least they were largely spared the fate of Korea, being literally divided as a people and nation. The United States at least learned one lesson from that war if nothing else and avoided a complete Korea pt. 2. The US also still could have lost. The Vietnamese people were fierce and determined. Many tactics and actions of allied personnel caused huge loses in support by friendly and neutral citizens. It was a war mismanaged on almost every level and the cost was paid by men and women in combat as well as innocent civilians. Corruption and issues in the south Vietnamese government and internal politics to Vietnam complicated it more, and there is still a question of our involvement, or the level of involvement was appropriate for their civil war. But it’s not just the US.
A “badass” and a “scoundrel” aren’t equivalent. “Badarse” might work but is a tad improper for the tone here, “ledge” is informal slang that is still not quite equivalent but closer than scoundrel, in a more old fashioned bent a word like “a tough” may suit although still isn’t perfect.
And what do you speak?
Failed prison island?