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Originally Posted by ubertuber
I see and hear this quite often, but I don't know how it could possibly be anything more than rhetoric. At best it is a supposition made with a political end in mind. If you've got anything to back this up, PLEASE start a thread about it. I'd really appreciate the chance to discuss this idea.
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If you want a history of the vietnam war I'm sure there are several good books.
I didn't even know there was a debate on this issue, even my over the top liberal history teacher in highschool (great guy though and open about his political leanings) knew this. For example the Tet offensive is a very good example of how the press and anti-war movement used what was really a great victory and turned it into a defeat. It was a turning point in the war, a turning point in public opinion, not in military reality.
Huge mistakes were made in Vietnam in how the war was conducted, but it wasn't the NVA that kicked us out.