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teknomanzer

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Thu Jun-22-06 10:21 AM
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28. You can't call it a surrender...

Edited on Thu Jun-22-06 10:22 AM by teknomanzer

Did the Vietnamese nationalists win? Certainly. Did the United States lose? If speaking in terms of US policy achieving its goals both declared and undeclared, then yes the US lost. But the United States did not surrender to the Vietnamese. US territory is not being occupied by the Vietnamese. Our aggression was simply repelled.

Cut and run is not surrender. Sometimes its living to fight another day like Washington's retreat or the evacuation of Dunkirk. Other times its lets get out before we really lose our shirts, as in Vietnam.

Surrender requires being taken captive.

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