There is little I respect Less* than a "we could have still won in Vietnam" opinion, straight to the Austria-Hungary level intellect as far as im concerned
We could have. Its a hard lesson we learned. You're premise of
"Vietnam numbuh wan!" is flawed. You can't run a war from Washington was the lesson of Vietnam. We literally pulled so many of our punches to appease the pantywaists in Washington who were more afraid of TV cameras and newspaper editors than losing. Those lessons were applied brilliantly in Desert Storm, by the way, to amazing results. Saddam happened to have had the heaviest antiair belt, then. And we did far
better. Washington gave them the job, and (mostly)
got the fuck out of the way. Of course, we had better leadership, then, too. God Bless Chuck Horner. It was a far thing from trying to literally run active ops from half a world away.
we lost 15 motherfucking B-52s that NEVER got replaced all to kill half a 9/11s worth of civilians
God forbid, you look up the heavy-bomber losses we had in dubya-dubya duece. It might have given you a fuller sense of context and perspective! That turns the "vibes" into cognitive-dissonance induced brainpain!
NO! THINKY HURTY BAD! ME HAVE GLORIFIED CHATBOT TO DO THINKY THINGS!
Another way to say this, perhaps a more honest way to say it, is that we penetrated
literally the heaviest anti-aircraft belt the world had ever seen to that point, and
only lost 15 planes.
If you understood these things, and accepted the world as more nuanced than the alcohol allows you to perceive, you wouldn't be our loveable Studmuffin.
you realize china could lose our entire countries population and still have a billion people left?
This is true, and you are
right to be terrified of the implications, were it to go that far.
You're arguing with a guy who thinks the American Civil War didn't happen because bricks.
Because we like him, we want him to not be so woefully uninformed. Its a bit like like potty-training a retarded puppy.
