Re: Anti-Carrier Trump Card
That's the great liberal invasion of public education for ya. Used to date a girl who was quite normal before going to college, then after being brainwashed by her left-wing liberal professors at school, she graduated to advocating banning of private property ownership and people should rent from the government.
The Vietnam War needs to be evaluated from the respective time period. At the time the communists were expanding, and the Soviets had sent the first man to space. The western world really didn't know if they were going to win in the long-haul, or if the communist ideology would prove superior.
Looking back, we could say the war was unncessary because time has proven the non-competitive communist/socialist economy will crumble and the capitalist, free market system is far superior. But that's an opinion that we have the luxery of making AFTER we had already won the cold war.
The arguement over winning or losing the Vietnam war is mostly irrevelent. Even the Vietnamese government today will admit that the communist economic system is backward and they must reform toward capitalism to prosper.
The Vietnam War was an important lesson that lead to many improvements to the US armed forces and its handling of the media/press. The photo showing children burn by napalm at Trang Bang in 1972 contributed to the push for better, precision guided munitions to avoid hitting civilian targets. And the My Lai massacre and rape of civilians incident lead to better training by the US Army. During the recent actions in Iraq the US commanders would tell their soliders that they expect professional conduct and "no my lais". When confronted with large numbers of Iraqi civilians in a potentially hostile situation, the commander ordered his troops to point their guns down with one knee on the ground. These actions reduced potential civilian deaths and you could say that it's the results of hard lessons from Vietnam.
Another great lesson learned was handling of media/press. The media insertion and laying down the rules - giving Geraldo Rivera the boot for breaking them, was excellent handling of the press.
bd popeye said:
That's the great liberal invasion of public education for ya. Used to date a girl who was quite normal before going to college, then after being brainwashed by her left-wing liberal professors at school, she graduated to advocating banning of private property ownership and people should rent from the government.
The Vietnam War needs to be evaluated from the respective time period. At the time the communists were expanding, and the Soviets had sent the first man to space. The western world really didn't know if they were going to win in the long-haul, or if the communist ideology would prove superior.
Looking back, we could say the war was unncessary because time has proven the non-competitive communist/socialist economy will crumble and the capitalist, free market system is far superior. But that's an opinion that we have the luxery of making AFTER we had already won the cold war.
The arguement over winning or losing the Vietnam war is mostly irrevelent. Even the Vietnamese government today will admit that the communist economic system is backward and they must reform toward capitalism to prosper.
The Vietnam War was an important lesson that lead to many improvements to the US armed forces and its handling of the media/press. The photo showing children burn by napalm at Trang Bang in 1972 contributed to the push for better, precision guided munitions to avoid hitting civilian targets. And the My Lai massacre and rape of civilians incident lead to better training by the US Army. During the recent actions in Iraq the US commanders would tell their soliders that they expect professional conduct and "no my lais". When confronted with large numbers of Iraqi civilians in a potentially hostile situation, the commander ordered his troops to point their guns down with one knee on the ground. These actions reduced potential civilian deaths and you could say that it's the results of hard lessons from Vietnam.
Another great lesson learned was handling of media/press. The media insertion and laying down the rules - giving Geraldo Rivera the boot for breaking them, was excellent handling of the press.
