The comparison is only in that it is very hard to beat a nation into
submission. America failed to do it in Vietnam. The Soviet Union failed
to do it in Afghanistan. The only way to do it now would be with a
massive nuclear strike.
I can only hope that you're not advocating the annihilation of Afghanistan
in retaliation. As someone pointed earlier, many Afghanis are fighting a
civil war against the Taliban. To indiscriminantly attack and destroy
this country would not only punish many innocents but would be an act of
lunacy that would almost certainly lead to World War 3. Is that what you
really want?
>PAUL STENQUIST wrote:
>Vietnam was a different situation. We were intervening in what was
>basically a civil war. The entire premise of our actions was wrong.
>Three days ago we were attacked on our own soil. If and when it is fully
>determined that Afghanistan or any other country has supported the
>perpetrators, you can be sure that the full military might of the United
>States will be unleashed against them. As I said in an earlier post, I
>would be surprised if the Afghanistan of today survives the next couple
>of weeks. There is no comparison possible between this situation and
>that of Viet Nam.
>
>Nenad Djurdjevic wrote:
>>
>> I hope you're right Robert and that those who favour carpet bombing
>> Afghanistan do not have their wish granted.
>>
>> Robert Harris wrote:
>> > All true, and you left out bombing Cambodia, for which many Americans
>> > regard top government officials of the time as war criminals.
>> >
>> > But this is not relevant to the current situation.
>>
>> > Nenad Djurdjevic wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Not sure about Korea but the as far as Vietnam is concerned I have
to
>> bring
>> > > to your attention that the US carpet bombed North Vietnam
>> indiscriminately
>> > > dropping a considerably higher tonnage of bombs than on Germany in
WW2.
>> > > They also used napalm and dropped highly toxic defoliant, the
infamous
>> > > "agent orange" to destroy the jungles that harboured the Vietcong.
>> > >
>> > > I hate to point it out but it was all for nothing as the Vietcong
did
>> not
>> > > give up and in the end won anyway.
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