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What could America have done differently to win the Vietnam war?
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∙ 14y ago
The U.S. government finally admitted after the war that they had no business being there. JFK and Bobby Kennedy knew it and so did Martin Luther King and 1/2 of the population of the U.S.
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It could have been run by the military instead of the politicians. Those who traveled to North Vietnam and allowed themselves to be used in propaganda by the enemy could have been charged with treason. In short, the US could have acted as if we were actually fighting a war and forgotten about politically correctness.
We could have run an active bombing campaign against the NVA staging areas north of the DMZ. We gave the North Vietnamese a virtual sanctuary from which to attack South Vietnam. US troops should have attacked in southern North Vietnam and taken the war to the enemy. Instead we fought a defensive war in the south. It was only at the end of the war did we attack and bomb North Vietnam War making facilities in the north to any great extent. This was in the era before political correctness, we were actually afraid of Chinese intervention which is what had happened in Korea.
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