Fw: An Afghan American's point of view

[Don]

Hi Jim,

So the USA won in Vietnam? Interesting. Thank you for the "history" lesson.
And, of course, mankind won as well. Right?

At 02:17 PM 09/18/2001 EDT, you wrote:
>
>In a message dated 18/09/01 1:36:44 PM, baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca writes:
>
><< Viet Nam used the the bomb every thing in sight
>approach.   We all should remember the outcome and learn. >>
>
>"Bomb everything in sight approach"? Hardly Roger the ROE did not allow this 
>to happen and we paid dearly for it with American lives......you should know 
>better. The truth of the matter is that it wasn't until we did "bomb 
>everything in sight", in Hanoi and Haiphong, that NVN became serious about 
>Paris Peace talks..that took exactly 'eleven' days.
>
>"We all should remember the outcome and learn." 
>  Yes that is true, we should all remember the 2 million dead/missing in the 
>SVN popualtion after the NVA's "retraining/attitude adjustments/political 
>adjustments were over"...we should remember the 3+ million dead in Cambodia 
>due to the NVA and the Kymer Rouge..........remember Roger?? I can't forget.
>
> What we should all remember and learn is that 'if' a war is to be fought it 
>be fought to win and not to solely satisfy some nebulous political goal.
Just 
>don't revise history to fit todays supposed facts.
>Jim Bryant (FL)
>
>

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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