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I was thinking just how much like Vietnam the Iraq war is. I fully remember when our troops first invaded Vietnam. From a staging point near Saigon, our troop rolled north. In tactics that would have made George Patton proud, they swept north. They rolled up the Vietnamese resistance like a steamroller ironing out asphalt.
Then as they neared Hanoi, our Navy delivered the Marines in one of their finest landings since Iwo Jima. They met the 3rd Infantry Division in the middle of the city and quickly eliminated all resistance. General Vo Nguyen Giap surrendered to U.S. forces. Ho Chi Minh went into hiding while U.S. troops completed their conquest of then North Vietnam.
In four weeks time we had conquered all of Vietnam. A month later, we had capture Ho Chi Minh and had him safely ensconced in jail.
Er, no. That’s not what happened. We never captured North Vietnam or Ho Chi Minh.
Posted by The Vorlon at August 23, 2005 8:38 PM