Dear, northfolk/al cholger
We agree there, the myth that we won the war on the field and lost it in the press is quiet different than that which you present. The reality is we lost it in the field and won it in the movies. This is not to take away from the efforts of the US soldiers. They attempted a job that could not have been done, for many of the same reasons that my families regiment, the 35 foot got pasted in the American revolution (The Otway regiment). Just as Irish troops were fighting against their self interest in the colonies American troops were fighting against their interests in Viet Nam. They are not to blaime. Just as my Otway forefathers sent their troops to war ill equipted for the job, and to keep them from making the changes that should have been made at home, it is not isolationist to say that forign wars drop more bombs at home than on the enamy, to quote MLK.
Larry