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How did that full force of the US military work out in Vietnam?
by Noaidi 8mo ago
How did that full force of the US military work out in Vietnam?
- kgermino 8mo agoPretty badly for both sides
- randallsquared 8mo agoIt was never used, there.
- antonymoose 8mo agoMillions of dead Vietnamese. In any case that was a war against a hardened, experienced, determined enemy fighting for its freedom from any form of colonial occupation, both as a formal military and as an insurgent force in South Vietnam. I scarcely think the Mexican population would rise up in defense of the cartels here.
- boringg 8mo agoI think a lot of people would be cheering on the destruction of the cartels.
- colechristensen 8mo agoThe destruction of cartels would involve careful policing and corruption controls, the best American administrations have been bad at this. The worst... can barely put its pants on much less dismantle foreign organized crime. You can't shoot a missile at a cartel and poof it's just gone.
- ryandrake 8mo agoThey'd probably quickly stop cheering as their own homes and families were destroyed as collateral damage, which is what would happen if the "full force of the US military" were deployed against the cartels.
- TitaRusell 8mo agoThe last time America invaded Mexico City it created martyrs. It's a fascinating story that they do not teach at US highschools lol.
- mjhay 8mo agoCurious, because the martyrs were Mexican high-school students.
- anigbrowl 8mo agoWe were briefly greeted as liberators in Iraq too.
- adolph 8mo agoA non-aligned population will look out for their own interests and are aware that the attention of the US is temporary but the cuadillismo that lead to cartels are a durable cultural artifact. The Battle of Culiacán, also known locally as the Culiacanazo and Black Thursday, was a failed attempt to capture Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, who was wanted in the United States for drug trafficking. Around 700 cartel gunmen began to attack civilian, government and military targets around the city, despite orders from Ovidio sent at security forces' request. Massive towers of smoke could be seen rising from burning cars and vehicles. The cartels were well-equipped, with improvised armored vehicles, bulletproof vests, .50 caliber (12.7 mm) rifles, rocket launchers, grenade launchers and heavy machine guns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Culiac%C3%A1n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Culiac%C3%A1n
- AngryData 8mo agoThe problem is you can't just target the cartels, the cartels are made up of random Mexican people. There is an almost guarantee that any significant US strikes would be 90%+ civilian casualties.
- boringg 8mo agoI don't really think you thought through that one. It sounds like what your saying is that the Vietnamese won and thats the outcome that matters. It does matter but that isn't the issue - it is the cost that everyone is talking about: the amount of destruction that was brought upon the country and people was terrible.