talk.politics.misc

On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 13:55:08 -1000, "Jerry Okamura"
wrote:

>
>"Rifty" wrote in message
>news: %rifty@ ...
>> Jerry Okamura wrote:
>>
>>> The facts speak for themselves. Look up and find out for yourself how
>>> many people died in Vietnam during the 8 years of this lost cause,
>>> because a few presidents were afraid to admit they made a mistake.
>>
>> The mistake was getting involved in the first place.
>>>
>>> The only mistake they made is getting involved in a war, and not doing
>>> what
>>> was necessary to win those wars.
>>
>> They did everything they could short of dropping nuclear bombs, and
>> everything failed miserably. You tell me, Jerry - what should they have
>> done to 'win' that war?
>>
>Spend some time and study how the US conducted WWII, and how it conducted
>the war in Vietnam. Once you understand the difference between those two
>wars, you would find out what we did wrong in Vietnam. And "NO" we did not
>"HAVE TO" drop nulcear bombs, Operation Linebacker proves that we did not
>have to use nuclear bombs.
>
>As for you last question, the United States should have done what it did to
>Japan.

The problem being you didn't have allies in Japan.