Fred J. McCall wrote:
wrote:
:
:Fred J. McCall wrote:
...
:
: Along about 1964 we should have sunk everything in Haiphong Harbor,
: leveled Hanoi and put a million men in the country marching north.
:
:Because that strategy worked so well in Korea?
South Korea is an independent, relatively free nation. South Vietnam
is what?
Your point is well made. The Russian threat to use nuclear
weapons should we send ground forces North of the DMZ was
NOT widely published (to say the least) at the time. How well
established is that?
Assuming it was true, keep in mind the perception that it was
the Cuban missle crisis that knocked Kruschev out of power.
In another article in this thread, (direct replies via Google have
expired)
Ed Rasimus wrote:
...
That canard about who went to war and who went to the Guard has been
discussed at length in R.A.M. Flying single seat, single engine
tactical jets for 4.5 years trumps driving a fishing boat upriver for
six months and then calling everyone you served with a war criminal in
the balance of most of the folks I deal with.
A great many men served on the Swift Boats. Refering to them
as "fishing boats" denigrates the service of all of those men,
not just the one whom you dislike.
As to why he chose fighter jets, GWB (who flew for a bit less
than four years but that's a nit) said he enlisted in the Texas
AFNG as a alternative to service in Vietnam.
--
FF