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Originally Posted by Easy-8 I don't believe the protesters had much to do with the defeat in Vietnam (the only thing they did was lower the moral of the troops). The United States of America has won very unpopular wars (The Revolution, Civil War, WWI and Korea). I believe anyone who believes that the protesters caused the defeat are dead wrong. Nixon was not a weak president however when Watergate happened we got Ford (who was very much a pansy) who refused to back SV when attacked by the North (after US troops had left once the truce was signed). The war was not lost at the tip of a gun but by the tip of a pen. |
Just to set the record straight, Easy-8, this is one Vietnam veteran whose morale was
not lowered by the protesters. And another thing, you need to reread your history books. The Korean War was not won by the USA or the United Nations Command, in fact the war is still in effect. A cease-fire was entered by both sides on July 27, 1953. A truce was entered into by both sides, but a peace treaty has never been signed. Truce meetings were going on in 1965 & 1966 when I served in Korea and to my knowledge they are still meeting once a week.
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The inability of the two sides to resolve their differences has meant that the two Koreas and their allies have had to remain on a war footing along the inter-Korean border ever since. Fifty years after the North Korean invasion, Communist and United Nations soldiers still glare at each other across the demilitarized zone established in July 1953. Together with the South Koreans, U.S. Army troops continue to make up the bulk of the UN contingent in Korea. The burdens of protecting South Korea from the threat of renewed Communist aggression over the past half-century have been great for the United States. Billions of dollars have been spent and some additional lives have been lost, the latter as a result of sporadic Communist violations of the cease-fire.
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