Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Follies
April 2nd, 2019 at 4:58:38 PM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11826 |
Both are tragedies Its that the numbers regarding deaths of Americans in Viet Nam is staggering compared to Afganistan Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
April 2nd, 2019 at 4:59:30 PM permalink | |
pew Member since: Jan 8, 2013 Threads: 4 Posts: 1232 | That's cold man. Don't get me started on Vietnam I'll have to start a new thread! |
April 2nd, 2019 at 5:01:26 PM permalink | |
pew Member since: Jan 8, 2013 Threads: 4 Posts: 1232 | First and second longest wars in Our history I believe. |
April 2nd, 2019 at 5:06:51 PM permalink | |
pew Member since: Jan 8, 2013 Threads: 4 Posts: 1232 | I don't know if it matters but Vietnam was strickly a democrat party war that was finally ended by a republican. |
April 2nd, 2019 at 5:11:57 PM permalink | |
pew Member since: Jan 8, 2013 Threads: 4 Posts: 1232 | Not if you consider the number of survivors that lost limbs, organs and minds that would have been dead in Vietnam. I don't know a lot of Viet Nam vets that are crippled, physically that is. |
April 2nd, 2019 at 7:36:43 PM permalink | |
kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4530 |
From Wiki: Vietnam War 153,303 wounded Afghanistan 20,050 wounded That seems like a substantial difference. The Viet Cong set up booby traps in the jungle that were designed to maim not kill. Partially for the terror factor but mostly because if you seriously injured a soldier you not only took him out of the battle but 1 or 2 others to care for him and a chopper to evacuate him. This is a well documented strategy of theirs that worked once the American policy was to never leave a man behind. Contrast this with policy from WWI or WWII. Soldiers rushing the beaches were instructed to never stop running until they cleared the beach no matter who fell around them. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
April 3rd, 2019 at 6:20:27 AM permalink | |
pew Member since: Jan 8, 2013 Threads: 4 Posts: 1232 | What's the ratio of dead to wounded and how many of the wounded in the current debacle would have been dead in the other debacle? We are much better at survival today than in the sixties albeit at great cost to the survivors. |
April 3rd, 2019 at 6:24:28 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18268 |
I’d rather be dead than much of what survivors end up going thru. The President is a fink. |
April 3rd, 2019 at 6:33:53 AM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12584 |
Please stop hijacking this thread. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
April 3rd, 2019 at 12:21:00 PM permalink | |
aceofspades Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 83 Posts: 2019 |