Comments on: Winning the Vietnam War http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/ America's favorite blog Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:52:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Joe http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-12421 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 03:41:21 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-12421 I suppose you didn't fight in the Vietnam War. It's just an amusing side note to people like you. For some of us it is on our minds every day and not because we're guilty over our college deferrment.Having read the Buchanon quote you referred to I'd have to agree with him .It was politics of the day that caused Gerald Ford to renig on promises made to South Vietnam in the Paris Peace Accords. If you fail to understand the dynamics of the time I won't help you. I suppose you didn’t fight in the Vietnam War. It’s just an amusing side note to people like you. For some of us it is on our minds every day and not because we’re guilty over our college deferrment.Having read the Buchanon quote you referred to I’d have to agree with him .It was politics of the day that caused Gerald Ford to renig on promises made to South Vietnam in the Paris Peace Accords. If you fail to understand the dynamics of the time I won’t help you.

]]> by: hedera http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-9143 Thu, 09 Jun 2005 03:43:51 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-9143 Actually, I believe the <i>name</i> "guerrilla" dates from the Peninsular Campaign during the Napoleonic wars - I think the Spanish irregulars who supported Wellington's army from the sidelines, as it were (I don't think they ever took part in the pitched battles), were called "guerrilleros", which later morphed into "guerrillas". I'm not sure of this and I'm <i>quite</i> sure that someone here will correct me if I'm wrong! "Guerro", of course, is Spanish for "War"... Actually, I believe the name “guerrilla” dates from the Peninsular Campaign during the Napoleonic wars - I think the Spanish irregulars who supported Wellington’s army from the sidelines, as it were (I don’t think they ever took part in the pitched battles), were called “guerrilleros”, which later morphed into “guerrillas”. I’m not sure of this and I’m quite sure that someone here will correct me if I’m wrong! “Guerro”, of course, is Spanish for “War”…

]]> by: Murray http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-9137 Wed, 08 Jun 2005 23:32:44 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-9137 Hedra, We also got a big hand from the French navy which prevented the British from re-supplying their troops. When ever a big army fights a small one you get guerrilla warfare which is either brilliant or dirty depending on which side you are on. Hedra,

We also got a big hand from the French navy which prevented the British from re-supplying their troops.

When ever a big army fights a small one you get guerrilla warfare which is either brilliant or dirty depending on which side you are on.

]]> by: hedera http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-9122 Wed, 08 Jun 2005 03:37:04 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-9122 Asia, my foot. In 1776 the biggest standing army in the world took on a ragtag collection of guerrilla weirdos ("they won't stand and fight! they shoot from behind ROCKS!") in a multi-year fight on the guerrillas' home turf, and lost. Of course, we had George Washington on our side... You can not win a guerrilla war on the guerrillas' home ground; they have too much to lose to let it happen. Asia, my foot. In 1776 the biggest standing army in the world took on a ragtag collection of guerrilla weirdos (”they won’t stand and fight! they shoot from behind ROCKS!”) in a multi-year fight on the guerrillas’ home turf, and lost. Of course, we had George Washington on our side… You can not win a guerrilla war on the guerrillas’ home ground; they have too much to lose to let it happen.

]]> by: Pete IVDL http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-9112 Tue, 07 Jun 2005 23:42:30 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-9112 Vizzini said it best. Never get involved in a land war in Asia. (And that was in 1982!) Vizzini said it best. Never get involved in a land war in Asia. (And that was in 1982!)

]]> by: Murray http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-9105 Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:27:52 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-9105 Jerry, I stand corrected. Jerry,
I stand corrected.

]]> by: Jerry http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-9100 Mon, 06 Jun 2005 23:19:17 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-9100 "...not much beyond...," Murray? I bet you have at least one honest kid in your class. Which makes a vastly greater occurance of honesty there than in the whole administration. <i>"S'pose he opened his mouth -- what then? If he didn't shut it up powerful quick he'd lose a lie every time." Huckleberry Finn</i> “…not much beyond…,” Murray? I bet you have at least one honest kid in your class. Which makes a vastly greater occurance of honesty there than in the whole administration.

“S’pose he opened his mouth — what then? If he didn’t shut it up powerful quick he’d lose a lie every time.”

Huckleberry Finn

]]> by: Murray http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-9098 Mon, 06 Jun 2005 22:27:04 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-9098 One thing I've gotten used to as a substitute teacher is that if you WATCH a kid do something wrong and say his name, his first (and it appears involuntary) response is to point his finger (at random) and say "No, he did it! Sad, this administration doesn't seem morally much beyond 7th graders. One thing I’ve gotten used to as a substitute teacher is that if you WATCH a kid do something wrong and say his name, his first (and it appears involuntary) response is to point his finger (at random) and say “No, he did it!

Sad, this administration doesn’t seem morally much beyond 7th graders.

]]> by: Auros http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-9097 Mon, 06 Jun 2005 22:23:48 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-9097 BTW, Jon Stewart put a great line into Liddy's mouth the other night. "Because of this man's leaks, I had to serve hard time for crimes that I committed. Doesn't that seem unfair to anyone?! Uh... anyone?" BTW, Jon Stewart put a great line into Liddy’s mouth the other night. “Because of this man’s leaks, I had to serve hard time for crimes that I committed. Doesn’t that seem unfair to anyone?! Uh… anyone?”

]]> by: Auros http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-9096 Mon, 06 Jun 2005 22:21:48 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/06/03/winning-the-vietnam-war/#comment-9096 Buchanan has been defeated, in the contest to write the most grotesque Watergate-revisionist attack on Felt, by G Gordon Liddy. But that's hardly surprising, since Liddy was the looniest member of the Nixon cabal, as he proved, conclusively, in an interview published originally in Playboy, and <a href="http://elementropy.blogspot.com/2005_06_01_elementropy_archive.html#111806186812102222" rel="nofollow">excerpted by Elementropy</a>. <a href="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/06/richard_nixon_m.html" rel="nofollow">Ben</a> <a href="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/06/hilzoy_on_water.html" rel="nofollow">Stein</a>'s also put in a worthy effort. Buchanan has been defeated, in the contest to write the most grotesque Watergate-revisionist attack on Felt, by G Gordon Liddy. But that’s hardly surprising, since Liddy was the looniest member of the Nixon cabal, as he proved, conclusively, in an interview published originally in Playboy, and excerpted by Elementropy.

Ben Stein’s also put in a worthy effort.

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