Walter Kronkite had us quitting after 55 thousand dead. Katie Couric has us about to quit after 4000 dead. CNN had us quitting after 21 dead ( and I believe the score was 21 to 1100, some defeat , huh ? )
Make that 3,000.
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Walter Kronkite had us quitting after 55 thousand dead. Katie Couric has us about to quit after 4000 dead. CNN had us quitting after 21 dead ( and I believe the score was 21 to 1100, some defeat , huh ? )
Americans won Tet militarily, but lost public support in the process. The latter proved to be more important.Not so. If you treat Khe Sanh and Tet as the culmination of the Viet Nam war, the United States military won both decisively. The enemy of the United States who defeated us was Walter Cronkite.
The REAL threat is the American citizens - and the officials they elected - who want to disarm us.
Hardly. We fielded both militia (state forces) and the Continental Army (the national force). Each fought as a unit in open battle, wearing uniforms under specific colors. Consequently neither constitutes "guerrilla's."
The French gave us funds, arms, supplies, the Marquis de LaFayette and, later both land and naval units. The Comte deGrasse defeated the British fleet which was coming to aid Cornwallis and then blockaded his forces, forcing his surrender.
I don't have much use for the French, but fair is fair. Let us note that the debt was paid - TWICE.
Note that the gross disparity in technology between the combatants that exists today did not exist then. Both sides fielded basically the same long arm and artillery. Cruise missiles, "smart bombs," air superiority, night vision, armored vehicles and helo gunships would give the current military a significant advantage advantage over home-grown guerrillas.
As for that drivel about Yamamoto/Japanese naval officer at a joint conference/ex-IJN officer decrying an invasion of the US because an armed American would be "behind every blade of grass;" it's jingoistic nonsense devoid of any real documentation.
The primary reason is the utter impossibility of supplying an invasion force fortunate enough to establish a beachhead - after being decimated by our air and naval forces across the thousands of miles such an invasion force would have to traverse.
The allures and wonders of revisionist history notwithstanding, the point of the OP was that the "Muslims want to disarm us." Who cares?
The REAL threat is the American citizens - and the officials they elected - who want to disarm us.
With the exception of a few "civilized" nations the citizens of the U.S. are the least capable of defending anything against any substantial organized group.
I know that French-bashing is a bit of an American pasttime.
Five words:
Come and get 'em, motherf***er.
I'd disagree. I believe that the citizens of the US would be extremely capable of defending against any organized group stupid enough to actually attack. The real problem is that unless someone is actually shooting at us, we tend to just close the blinds and turn the volume up on the TV. The American media and political elite on the other hand would probably be in a neck-and-neck race with the French to the "Collaborators Welcome" reception.
Ken
Bottom line-none of the examples were state sponsored militaries (with exception to the Vietnamese-at least in part), all of them cleaned our clocks. The Palestinians cleaned the Israeli clocks but good too.
I think what a lot of us are losing site of on this tread is that the only reply necessary for dribble like this article is "From My cold dead hands Mr. Afeef! "
If you want an actual example of local irregulars "cleaning the clocks" of a major professional army, I'd suggest the case of the Roman 17th, 18th and 19th Legions in the Teutoburger Wald. When you use words, please try to have them actually mean something.
But all that aside- I assure you anyone -especially some muslims-trying to get my guns is looking for trouble.
And they will find it.
I'm certain we agree on that.
Once we started supplying the Afghan mujahadeen with Stingers they really started giving the Soviets a hard time. ?