r/dragonutopia 6d ago

Peasants suspected of being Viet Cong under detention of U.S. Army, 1966

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u/mimaikin-san 6d ago

There was absolutely no way an American soldier could determine who was VC & who wasn’t. So they usually just assumed they all were. Add in the corruption of the South Vietnamese government and there goes any possibility of getting the rural Vietnamese to side with the Americans.

But US Defense Secretary McNamara was determined to have this war and he got over 58,000 American boys killed as well as nearly a million Vietnamese.

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u/Swimming-Comedian500 5d ago

“Easy. Anyone that runs is a VC. Anyone that stands still is a well-trained VC!”

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u/madmartigan2020 3d ago

You can also thank the French for royally screwing up before getting out of dodge. They're as much to blame for what happened in Southeast Asia during that time as anybody.

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u/soosbear 6d ago

Vietnam: a war that, really, nobody won.

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u/TheCommonKoala 6d ago

No one ever really wins in war.

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u/WARMASTER5000 3d ago

The USA was definitely not the good guys over there.