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Post by Swampy on Oct 15, 2013 13:43:41 GMT -5
Don is forever quoting Uncle Ho to the effect that they'll lose 10 to 1 against us, but we'll tire. But, hey, when Don arrived in VN, Uncle Ho died of fright. So isn't there a contradiction between what Don says and what he actually did?  |
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Post by hornet32 on Oct 15, 2013 19:16:47 GMT -5
Don is a good man or at least Tom thinks so , I think . the ratio of ten of their to one ours is pretty close , during tet the 'ho lost 110,000 American dead around 12,000 some died when they were sent to Camp Zama JAPAN or Clark Air Base Philippines , the ration to dead and wounded was around 10 wounded to one dead , this was not the the case with the NVA / VC they were all dead .
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Post by Swampy on Oct 15, 2013 20:03:48 GMT -5
The VC were totally wiped out. And, in Easter Offensive, the NVA also got a good beating.
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Post by dontom on Oct 15, 2013 21:24:22 GMT -5
The VC were totally wiped out. And, in Easter Offensive, the NVA also got a good beating. I wouldn't say totally. I think there might have been two or three VC left after Tet of 68. A young kid (had to be well under 18 and the NVA wouldn't take anybody under 18)with an AK47 shot at us when we were in Cambodia (mid 1970). If he wasn't VC, what was he? BTW, I recall the NLF (AKA VC) wanted to celibate the end of the war with the north, in Saigon. The north would not let them say who they were openly. IOW, the VC lasted to the end of the war, just their numbers were a lot smaller. -Don- Reno, NV |
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Post by Swampy on Oct 16, 2013 1:08:35 GMT -5
The VC were in fragments, and, even if one or two of them were still around, they were, as an organization, gone.
BTW, you haven't answered how you think the war was unwinnable when your presence was enough to kill their leader.
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Post by dontom on Oct 16, 2013 2:04:56 GMT -5
BTW, you haven't answered how you think the war was unwinnable when your presence was enough to kill their leader. How do you define "win"? Militarily, we won Vietnam by a landslide. "Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there." -General William Childs Westmoreland "We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam." -General Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. Every job I ever had did fine when I worked for them. A few weeks after I quit, they all went bankrupt. They just could not survive without me. When I went to Wash DC a couple of weeks ago, the federal government shut down the same day. They were afraid I would straighten them out, so they shut down. South Vietnam was doing very well when I was there. The great leader of the north dies the day I get there. But when I left, how could the south survive without me? I am surprised they lasted as long as they did! -Don Quoteman, Reno, NV |
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Post by Swampy on Oct 16, 2013 9:05:53 GMT -5
Every job I ever had did fine when I worked for them. A few weeks after I quit, they all went bankrupt. They just could not survive without me. When I went to Wash DC a couple of weeks ago, the federal government shut down the same day. They were afraid I would straighten them out, so they shut down. South Vietnam was doing very well when I was there. The great leader of the north dies the day I get there. But when I left, how could the south survive without me? I am surprised they lasted as long as they did! What you should have done was go to Hanoi for a week, then leave. |
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