Ed Bradley - No Way to Win in Vietnam

Ed Bradley, the award winning "60 Minutes" correspondent, died of leukemia Thursday, Nov. 9 at age 65. Bradley, who was wounded while covering the Vietnam War, later became CBS's first black White House correspondent.

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[Jaywalk721]

@Tonyo1221 "Never did thir Homework"? Tonyo I dont think you realize how involved we were with Vietnam after 1945. A good book for you to read to understand the complex relationship between Vietnam and the US would be "Where the Domino fell US and Vietnam relations 1945-2005" or you could watch a video right here on youtube called "Battlefield Vietnam Ep1 Diem Bien Phu". Its a good series and it explains alot, its broken into 6 parts on youtube but in case you dont have an hour watch the last1/2

[Tonyo1221]

@Jaywalk721 It was a civil war in Vietnam. The US never did their homework. 

[Jaywalk721]

Long story short we went in there expecting the worst in terms of the domino effect, WE CERTAINLy didnt get the best scenario, but we definately didnt get the worst

[Jaywalk721]

@Tonyo1221 Im pretty sure the Main Idea was to stop Southeast Asia from falling into a domino effect pattern. And once Vietnam fell to communism it did indeed not have that effect. Whether or not the Us presence in Vietnam diissuaded the bordering countries or if the communist movement had lost momentum by the time the US left and the vietnamese were ttoo tired of war to insight revolution in their neighbors. Or maybe even our presence was never neccesary, it cant be said for certain.

[Tonyo1221]

@Jaywalk721 The US lost. Get real. The US went in there with one military objective, to prevent the North taking over the South. They went to war to achieve that objective. They failed in their objective. They lost the war.

[Jaywalk721]

@Tonyo1221 We didnt exactly lose. We never suffered a catastrophic military defeat at the hands of the enemy. HOWEVER, the vietcong and NVA armies suffered defeat after humiliating defeat at the hands of Americas fighting men. It was just as the gentlemen in the video said, The average American citizen would never let their sons fight in a ofreign country in a situation like that for such a long extended period of time. To me Vietnam really isnt a conventional or even LEGAL war anyway.

[ScooterpupReljac]

Oh Contrare...........we could have easily won that war. Its just that our politicians wouldn't let us....and it was a war that was not worth fighting in the first place...Not one drop of American blood was ever worth fighting in that CessPool of a country. But no doubt, we could have won if we wanted to. Our government wasted thousands of innocent American lives in a war they had no intention of trying to win. LBJ is burning in Hell for his part in this.

[Tonyo1221]

@wilson0213 You make it sound as if they pulled out before they lost . . which isnt true. They lost.

[wilson0213]

@Tonyo1221 they had the right intentions going in because it did actually cause a "domino effect" if you will, but once they realised they wern't going to win, they got out of there.

[CyborgVegita]

@Lokozjerzmanek o rly? The abundance of idiots on YouTube is staggering.