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Originally Posted by boatin
Since this is virtually identical to the rhetoric of the right during the Vietnam war, can I assume that you think we should have kept fighting in that 'war'? Was it those pesky peace-niks that ruined it back then, too?
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If you read General Giap's autobiography, you'll find that he draws EXACTLY that conclusion. He admits that the US had defeated both the insurgency and the North Vietnamese militarily, and the central facet of his strategy was to keep everybody bleeding until the Soviet controlled and financed anti-war movement in the US sapped the American will to fight. Of course, what did he know? It's not like he was the guy who developed the North Vietnamese military strategy!
/Oh wait...