Lessons from Viet Nam? Goddammit! I'll give you a lesson from Viet Nam

[ThomWV]

In 1955 we Provided Viet Nam with a $350 million military aid package, its first, and had 750 military advisers in country but not 1 combat troop on the ground. We didn't lose a single soldier that year and our position as the leader of the free world was not one bit less secure because of it. There's a lesson in appropriate levels of military involvement for you.

[Botany]

1. Lesson from Vietnam # 2

1961 to 1973 waiting for a strong central government to turn power over to .....

Lesson # 3 Nguyen Cao Ky



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Hamid Karzi

[Glorfindel]

2. Very well said - how tragic to watch history repeat itself

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[Journeyman]

3. 1955. That'd be the same year Graham Greene published "The Quiet American". . .

"You are a journalist," said Captain Trouin. "You know better than I that we can't win. You know the road to Hanoi is cut and mined every night. You know we lose one class of St Cyr ever year. We were nearly beaten in '50. . . . But we are professionals: We have to go on fighting till the politicians tell us to stop. Probably they will get together and agree to the same peace that we could have had at the beginning, making nonsense of all these years."

Perhaps it'd be best to seek lessons elsewhere . . .

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. I gotta read that book.

I am sure the movie did not do it justice.

[shadowknows69]

4. K+R

[bridgit]

5. My brother was a pilot that went down in the north...he never came back ~

[niyad]

7. I am so very sorry to hear that.

[TexasObserver]

8. Recommend

[MilesColtrane]

9. What lesson number would the murderous reprisals after the helicopters off the embassy be?

[ConsAreLiars]

10. I think that lesson, whatever the number, would be "Learn Lesson #1 Dumbass!!!!" (nt)

[MilesColtrane]

11. A lesson that Bush obviously didn't learn.

[Blue_In_AK]

12. +1