Reply #38: A prolonged war in Vietnam could have lead to a nuclear world war. [View All]

Those who say
we could have won in Vietnam never mention the fact that both China and Russia were on the side of the North and if we would have used nuclear weapons we may have ignited WWIII.

It is so easy to take history out of context to make a point. I was there and it was not a war we should have "won." After 10 years of fighting there was really no good reason to prolong the killing. What came about is that now we have diplomatic relations with Vietnam. We could have had that in 1946 without the wars with France and the US.

There was nothing to win in Vietnam just as there is nothing to win in Iraq. It is only the in ending the killing and finding ways to solve out problems peacefully do we actually win.

The war in Iraq and the war in Vietnam were and are wars started by people in power who profit off of the suffering and dying of innocent people. We should not get caught up in the idea of winning or losing but rather in the idea of what kind of world do we want to live in. I choose to live in a world where peace is rated more highly than "winning" a war.