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August 17th, 2008, 02:31 AM
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#1 | | Academician
Joined: Jul 2008 From: the continent of Asia, Planet Earth Posts: 81 | US won the Vietnam War
What if the United States had won the Vietnam War, and re-united South Vietnam and North Vietnam, or fought them to a draw. Would the Khmer Rouge rise to power in Cambodia or Pathet Lao in Laos?
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August 17th, 2008, 08:45 AM
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#2 | | Suspended indefinitely
Joined: Jul 2006 From: UK Posts: 6,114 | Re: US won the Vietnam War
The outcome would still be the same: A lot of lives wasted with no gain. Vietnam would still be a dictatorship (though now ruled by the South Vietnamese military rather than the Communists) and the Vietcong would remain a threat. As soon as America left the insurgency would start again, as will happen in Iraq, and relations with the Russians and Chinese would deteriorate even more.
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August 17th, 2008, 08:49 AM
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Joined: May 2008 Posts: 13,377 | Re: US won the Vietnam War
Agreed.  | | | |
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August 28th, 2008, 06:32 AM
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#4 | | Lecturer
Joined: Aug 2008 From: Upstate South Carolina Posts: 258 | Re: US won the Vietnam War
We DID win the Vietnam war  | | | |
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November 16th, 2012, 07:49 PM
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#5 | | Academician
Joined: Nov 2012 Posts: 71 | Quote:
Originally Posted by OldSwabbie  We DID win the Vietnam war | If you go by body count...we sure did
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Last edited by AAS; November 16th, 2012 at 07:50 PM.
Reason: spell error
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November 16th, 2012, 08:03 PM
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#6 | | Quixotic Jedi
Joined: Apr 2011 From: The True Capital of China Posts: 5,030 |
We certainly did not lose it.
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November 16th, 2012, 08:44 PM
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#7 | | Historian
Joined: Mar 2012 From: New Amsterdam Posts: 1,666 |
If the US continued to supply South Vietnam with the aid the US was supposed to, and provide air support, South Vietnam probably could have resisted the North. Plus, if S Vietnam could hold out long enough for the Sino-Soviet split to kick in, North Vietnam loses its direct link to her Soviet suppliers.
You'd probably see a repeat of South Korea and Republican China, with US economic and military aid being pumped in and an advanced industrial economy forming at the same pace as Japan and the four tigers (S Korea and ROC included). The US set up schools and roads during the war and was already putting effort into developing the country during the war. Once the fighting stops after 29, Saigon will end up prospering.
Maybe the communists on mainland China invade the North and turn it into a satellite? I can't the see the US complaining.
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November 17th, 2012, 03:43 PM
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#8 | | Historian
Joined: Apr 2011 From: Georgia, USA Posts: 1,877 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Wenge We certainly did not lose it. | If giving up doesn't count as losing
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November 17th, 2012, 03:50 PM
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#9 | | Historian
Joined: May 2012 From: Denmark Posts: 1,578 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Wenge We certainly did not lose it. | Interesting take on it. Care to elaborate, since your claim is obviously against all official history on the subject?
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November 17th, 2012, 03:57 PM
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#10 | | Suspended indefinitely
Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 19,934 | Quote:
Originally Posted by OldSwabbie
We DID win the Vietnam war
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Originally Posted by AAS If you go by body count...we sure did | Quote:
Originally Posted by Wenge We certainly did not lose it. | Yup, the testosterone here could be cut with a knife.
We have already been here.
Under the nice standard of the body count, the American revolution was won by the British side.
Maybe someone should go tell any Nazi survivors that the Soviet Union was defeated by them.
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