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We've learned nothing from Vietnam

http://www.daily-times.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/04/06/paul-weve-learned-nothing-vietnam/82680964/

Noraa Loc: Kansas

I agree but you can't stick your head in the sand and pretend everything is okay and the world will be fine if we stay home and do nothing. 9/11 anyone?

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

"[T]actical victories mean nothing when pursuing a strategic mistake." So true.

boatbob2

NOPE,I learned a LOT from vietnamese,I learned that MOST,were sorry sons of -------,not to be trusted,and the nva were good soldiers,but the vc were nothing but a bunch of B------S, mutilating OUR dead,on the battlefield, sometimes,we just couldnt recover their bodies until the next day.so,at nite we could see the either red or green lights,shining ,while they stripped our dead.

atomikmom Loc: Burien, Washington

I served in the Vietnam War, for 8 long years, as a US Navy Nurse, and can't bare to see another battle there again. Viet Cong was very sneaky and dangerous. and we lost so many of our troops, and to see them live today in the shape that they are in, makes me want to Scream Bloody Murder, and they fell on land mines(Bouncing Betty, and Swinging Bamboo Traps that hung from the Trees slicing our troops in pieces as they walked through the jungles, being stalked by the Viet Cong. This slimmy BATCH!!! Jane Fonda, would slam and curse our poor Military even after we all came back home. I would love to have cut her lips shut, if i had seen her. BY!!!GUMBO!!!! I would!!!! I am proud of all our Troops who are fighting for us and our safety, to this very day, and the Veterans here at home. GOD BLESS Them All.

boatbob2

Atomikmom,Thank you for your service..........

atomikmom Loc: Burien, Washington

I am very proud to have been there for our troops!!!!Thank you!!!!.

PulletSurprise Loc: Columbus, GA

Larry the Legend expressed it well, "[T]actical victories mean nothing when pursuing a strategic mistake."

Do we feel more safe and secure with our military deployed:
Constitutional Rights have been limited or destroyed;
Our Intelligence Community has been severely compromised;
Our Military Leadership was purged;
We diminish as our enemies have strengthened with our presence;
We are on the brink of bankruptcy;
We have the enemy within (unknown thousands of radical muslims, over 100,000 MS13 gang members, over 40,000 Zoe Pound / Haitian gang members, and over a million domestic gang members);
Etc.

We should salvage any and everything that was exported with our military.
Destroy all our other supplies that cannot be airlifted or shipped within an allotted time frame along with our embassies (especially, Fortress America).
IF History serves me correctly, Soviet Union was destroyed with its involvement with Afghanistan.
We need to halt immigration from everywhere, unless individual(s) have tremendous skills / knowledge.
We need to lose our dependence on computers (such as trusting voting machines; banks; and our national defense).
Each state needs a stockpile of food, water and medical supplies in the event of a Mega national emergency.
Congress needs more time in their representative areas and listen to their constituents; and less time in Washington DC, mingling with the lobbyist.
Our people need less time at the ball fields and more time with their officials to resolve some of problems.

Noraa Loc: Kansas

Sad but true!

johnmont

911 happened. because. we were Israel's bitch !
Where in the constitution does it say that we are the Cops of the world?

johnmont

so you were in the war over the oil in the gulf of tonkin. BP won that war!56000 of our boys died in a fight over oil! I'm sad to see that our young troops today are dying over oil,natural. gas and minerals!

Noraa Loc: Kansas

Oh please! So tired of the Israel slandering. I never said we had to be the cops of the world. I said we can't bury our heads in the sand.

johnmont

If Israel was nuked tomorrow, I wouldn't shed a tear! The world doesn't revolve around Israel!Israel is just a country.

Noraa Loc: Kansas

I really feel sorry for people like you. Nuff said.

johnmont

Israel doesn't. give a damn about us.Why weren't there Israeli boots on the ground in Iraq?Israel,s dream is to own. Syria, Lebanon and Iraq and everything coming out of the middleast going through of a Israeli port!