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Post by Sir John on Oct 30, 2015 18:10:37 GMT -5
Swampy,
"Russia is bombing IS into oblivion, which is something we didn't do. With that in mind, we nearly bombed the NVA into oblivion, especially with the Linebacker campaigns, as Nixon said they were going to be bombed like they never have been bombed. So, with recent events, perhaps the VN war was winnable after all.
Any thoughts?"
Just hypothetical answers to a hypothetical question!
(and bombing the shit out of NV is not an act or war?)
(and Korea was not a war either, it was a "Police Action"
SJ
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Post by dontom on Oct 30, 2015 18:16:12 GMT -5
(and Korea was not a war either, it was a "Police Action" A war by any other name is still a war. Besides, how can you say the Korean "war" was not a war? Or the Vietnam "war"? -Don- Cold Springs Valley, NV |
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Post by Sir John on Oct 30, 2015 18:21:06 GMT -5
The UN said so!
Korea was never a 'Declared' war, nobody ever declared war on Sth Korea and the US never declared war on Nth Korea. The UN never declared war on Nth Korea or China. And even China's troops were all "volunteers". Then do we count the Russian fighter pilots?
And what do we call the 'POW's condemned to death in Siberian Gulags?
SJ
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Post by dontom on Oct 31, 2015 2:18:57 GMT -5
The UN said so! Korea was never a 'Declared' war, nobody ever declared war on Sth Korea and the US never declared war on Nth Korea. The UN never declared war on Nth Korea or China. And even China's troops were all "volunteers". Then do we count the Russian fighter pilots? SJ Nobody has to declare the obvious. If those places were not at war, then why were they killing each other? -Don- Reno, NV |
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Post by Sir John on Oct 31, 2015 14:29:07 GMT -5
...because the US and the UN were not a game to come right out and say so, they were too scared of a ground war with China, which they ended up with anyway.
And the only reason the UN went to Korea was because Russia as in the middle of a walk-out, and could not use their veto powers.
sJ
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Post by hornet32 on Oct 31, 2015 15:42:42 GMT -5
The Korean war was a sucess because the U.S. had an ally in S.Korea who wanted their freedom and independance and were willing to fight for it , the S.Vietnamese didn't care who won the war as the farmers life would have been the same either way .
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