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Who rules Vietnam? Who rules Afghanistan? Tell us.
by Arodex 2mo ago
Who rules Vietnam? Who rules Afghanistan? Tell us.
- firesteelrain 2mo agoCommunist Hanoi and Taliban. Who governs those countries matters, but America cannot spend unlimited blood and treasure ensuring that every country is governed by people we approve of. The threats were eliminated. Mission accomplished.
- appointment 2mo agoThe USA completely failed to eliminate the threat of a communist takeover of French Indochina. Ask Pakistan if the threat of Afghanistan-based terrorism has been eliminated.
- firesteelrain 2mo ago[dead]
- Hugsbox 2mo agoWhich is it, Taliban controls Afghanistan, or the threats were eliminated? Doesn't sound like mission accomplished to me. Americans can cope all they want, but those conflicts were utter failures.
- cindyllm 2mo ago[dead]
- firesteelrain 2mo ago[dead]
- teytra 2mo agoI remember when I was young all the boat refugees from Vietnam. I could not understand why people said USA lost, but all the refugees were Vietnamese. If USA lost, whay were they not American?
- ZeroGravitas 2mo agoIn part because the communist government actively targeted former South Vietnamese military personnel, civil servants, and anyone who had collaborated with the United States. It was a civil war that the US got involved in, and they supported the side that lost.
- firesteelrain 2mo agoAgain, the US ceased combat operations in 1973; the Republic of Vietnam fell in 1975.