(May 9, 2014 at 8:05 pm)Heywood Wrote:(May 9, 2014 at 7:07 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: And then Vietnam showed the world how to beat a titan. You would think that lesson might have stuck, it being a lot more recent than World War II.
We never invaded North Vietnam or even tried to marched on Hanoi. It was decided that such an escalation of that conflict did not have a positive expectation. We never seriously considered trying to bring democracy to North Vietnam. The situations are not analogous.
In the sense that they were decade-long quagmires with no real aim and driven by flawed, faulty goals, justified by deliberate falsehoods and ended up being complete failures which wasted the lives of thousands of American servicemen and far more of the local population, they are analogous to the point of absurdity.