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Originally Posted by Lothar5150
I agree the Vietnam War was largely a nationalist civil war but do not kid yourself into thinking the communists were peace-loving peasants. After all, they were the aggressors.
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So... they were in our country? Or we were in theirs? Oh, wait, we were
peacekeepers protecting the
legitimate government, right?
You realize that going into Iraq with no exit strategy is going to make about as much sense, thirty years from now, when it's purely academic to
that generation?
As far as free fire zones, based on what I got from friends who had been there, in a zone like that, not only was anyone considered to be hostile, but recon was done through firepower - for instance, if there was a bush and you couldn't tell if anyone was hiding in it (and that "anyone" was, by definition a hostile) then the best way to find out was to put a few rounds through the bush. Sorry - they had a specific phrase for this tactic and I can't remember it.