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From: dbongard@netcom.com (Dan Bongard)
Subject: Re: Now Gun control I guess
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Allan Johnstone (A.W.Johnstone@btinternet.comNOSPAM) wrote:
: Christopher Corey <pfd278@maine.rr.com> wrote in article

: Anyway you got you're ARSE KICKED in Vietnam   :^)
: You're impressive PENIS ENHANCING guns didn't help you then did they?

They helped the Viet Cong and NVA quite a lot, though. It wouldn't
have been much of a war if the other side had been unarmed. :)

We lost the Vietnam war for three reasons:

(1): We had no interest in winning. We were there to show the world
     that we were "fighting Communism".
(2): We tried to fight the war like we had fought WWII -- through
     mass bombing and attacks on the infrastructure. You can't beat
     guerillas that way, because they can't effectively be bombed.
(3): South Vietnam, as a country, was not interested in winning.
     The South Vietnamese government was, sure, but the populace of
     the country was by no means "on our side". We were treating
     a complicated civil war like a simple conventional war.

Basically we were trying to prop up an unpopular government with
conventional forces in the face of guerilla warfare, a lack of
public support at home or in the country in question, and without
a clear set of goals for the conflict. Obviously that leads to
a loss.

Incidentally, pointing out that "[we] got our ARSES KICKED in Vietnam"
isn't likely to bother any American under age 30 or so. We all grew
up in a country that knew it wasn't militarily omnipotent.

: It must be scary to live in a country with a freaky gun-culture.

The United States doesn't have a "freaky gun culture". I have never
fired a gun at another person or had one fired at me, nor have I
witnessed anybody being shot at. I have owned guns, and have many
friends who have owned guns. There's nothing "freaky" about it.
They own cars too, and I'm a lot more worried about drivers than
I am about gun owners. :)

-- Dan
