Reply #136: And the results of a "win" in Vietnam [View All]

Would have been over 500,000 US soldiers dead, probably over 10 million Vietnamese dead, a few million from Cambodia and Laos for good measure, and possibly the use of a few small nukes. That would be a win? The only way to win in Vietnam would have been to take up a scorched-earth policy (even greater than the "destroy the village to save it" policy we already had) and kill countless civilians to get the Viet Cong fighters as well. Thank God the war was unpopular at home, because I wouldn't want to live in a country where killing millions of innocent civilians had widespread support.

Congratulations, we won the war in Vietnam. We're now even worse than the fucking Nazis in terms of genocide. Some win that would be.