Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 08/15/2009 7:34:58 PM PDT by RobinMasters
NVA and VC won the war by simple fact:
Did not wanted to stop fighting. Period.
Your teacher is pretty wreong. You see, if US and allies could not have won the war in 50% of nowdays Vietnam, How would they have won the war if they captured 100% of nowdays Vietnam?
Just look at Afghanistan. Was it occupied? Yes. 100% occupied? Yes. Won? No.
Yes. NVA could have ben defeated, but VC would spread across entire nation.
There was a series of interviews, with Giap, that I vaguely remember seeing in either the late 80’s or early 90’s on one of the alphabets. The gist of one section of them was that very comment. I cannot remember if he said that precisely but he did allude to it. Since the interview was conducted by the alphabets, I am certain they would have edited that type of comment out. I do remember feeling a sense of vindication for what all the nam’ guys did and went through (I was too young). We discussed it on active duty quite a bit. A lot of anger towards the press monkeys at that time. We hated them with a flipping purple passion.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
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