The Vietnam War

[The Minsky Moment]

What arrangement could NV and the US have come to other than throwing South Vietnam under the bus, and what could NV possibly have given to the US that would have justified the price?

benign neglect/hands off rest of SE Asia

[alfred russel]

I regret starting this thread. It was supposed to be a discussion of the Vietnam War, not whether we should have allied with Ho Chi Minh roughly two decades before the war ever got cranking.

Stop being so anal.  You start a thread, then it goes where it wants to go.

I generally agree. But we never talk about the Vietnam War, most people here know a zillion things about the military, so I was hoping to learn stuff. Instead we went somewhere stupid.

[Malthus]

I regret starting this thread. It was supposed to be a discussion of the Vietnam War, not whether we should have allied with Ho Chi Minh roughly two decades before the war ever got cranking.

Stop being so anal.  You start a thread, then it goes where it wants to go.

I generally agree. But we never talk about the Vietnam War, most people here know a zillion things about the military, so I was hoping to learn stuff. Instead we went somewhere stupid.

I agree.

We should get back to the sensible business of rating SE Asian women. 

[alfred russel]

I guess I could live with that.

[Eddie Teach]

https://www.facebook.com/cutiefilipinagirls

They seem to be more yellow than brown to me. 

[derspiess]

I regret starting this thread. It was supposed to be a discussion of the Vietnam War, not whether we should have allied with Ho Chi Minh roughly two decades before the war ever got cranking.

Stop being so anal.  You start a thread, then it goes where it wants to go.

He has a point.  I mean, if I started a thread wanting to discuss Allied strategy in WWII and some Texas dude who shall remain nameless blurted out that we should have killed Hitler when he was a baby I'd be kind of annoyed.

[The Minsky Moment]

He has a point.  I mean, if I started a thread wanting to discuss Allied strategy in WWII and some Texas dude who shall remain nameless blurted out that we should have killed Hitler when he was a baby I'd be kind of annoyed.

That is annoying.  I would consider that more tactics than strategy.

[Caliga]

We should get back to the sensible business of rating SE Asian women. 

Korean chicks have the best tits.  Discussion over.

[Valmy]

He has a point.  I mean, if I started a thread wanting to discuss Allied strategy in WWII and some Texas dude who shall remain nameless blurted out that we should have killed Hitler when he was a baby I'd be kind of annoyed.

Thanks Marty.

[Valmy]

I generally agree. But we never talk about the Vietnam War, most people here know a zillion things about the military, so I was hoping to learn stuff. Instead we went somewhere stupid.

You asked for a strategy about how to win in Vietnam and I gave one.  I didn't realize there were secret rules I had to abide by

[CountDeMoney]

Ide shouldn't be allowed to review movies, and Dorsey4Heisman shouldn't be allowed to talk about Communist history, since both are usually talking out of their asses.

[Ed Anger]

Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, etc.

No offense to funky monkey but Phillipinas just don't cut it.

Wrong.

Flip chicks are subhuman.

[grumbler]

You asked for a strategy about how to win in Vietnam and I gave one.  I didn't realize there were secret rules I had to abide by  

Well, duh!  The First Secret Rule is to never mention the existence of The Secret Rules.

[Eddie Teach]

What is the second secret rule?

[derspiess]

He has a point.  I mean, if I started a thread wanting to discuss Allied strategy in WWII and some Texas dude who shall remain nameless blurted out that we should have killed Hitler when he was a baby I'd be kind of annoyed.

Thanks Marty.