| ▲ | Arodex 7 hours ago |
| Who rules Vietnam? Who rules Afghanistan? Tell us. |
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| ▲ | teytra 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I remember when I was young all the boat refugees from Vietnam. I could not understand why people said USA lost, but all the refugees were Vietnamese. If USA lost, whay were they not American? |
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| ▲ | ZeroGravitas 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | In part because the communist government actively targeted former South Vietnamese military personnel, civil servants, and anyone who had collaborated with the United States. It was a civil war that the US got involved in, and they supported the side that lost. |
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| ▲ | firesteelrain 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Communist Hanoi and Taliban. Who governs those countries matters, but America cannot spend unlimited blood and treasure ensuring that every country is governed by people we approve of. The threats were eliminated. Mission accomplished. |
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| ▲ | Hugsbox 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Which is it, Taliban controls Afghanistan, or the threats were eliminated? Doesn't sound like mission accomplished to me. Americans can cope all they want, but those conflicts were utter failures. | | | |
| ▲ | appointment 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The USA completely failed to eliminate the threat of a communist takeover of French Indochina. Ask Pakistan if the threat of Afghanistan-based terrorism has been eliminated. | | |
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