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ww2buff · #9 (**permalink**) May 17th, 2003, 04:47 PM

[quote]Originally posted by Bill Smith:
[QB] No matter how one looks at the Vietnam war in number of casualties, whether it be fifty-five thousand, fifty-eight thousand, or sixty thousand, it was the longest war ever fought by the United States, and it ended in a total waste of lives on both sides with nothing gained for the tragic toll of wasted human lives.

I am sorry but I must disagree with you. The US won every major military engagement in Vietnam, and even though it was a very long war, we were actually making great progress in repelling the Viet Cong. It was our spineless president Nixon who decided to "Vietnamize" the Vietnam War. If we had continued to fight, we most surely would have won. Now, I ask another question: Nearly 60,000 US soldiers lost their lives in Vietnam. Compare that with 250,000 lost in WWII. We lost more lives fighting tyranny in Europe, but we have the greatest amount of respect for them than we do for our Vietnam veterans, where we lost LESS men in more years of fighting than in WWII for esentially the same goal.