From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"Monte Davis"  wrote in message
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> "Gary Wiltshire"  wrote:
>
>>We had yet another stupid war like Korea or Vietnam where the aim was
>>merely to push the bad guys back within their own borders rather than
>>conquer them outright and install new regimes as we did in Japan and
>>Germany.
>
> In the cases of Japan and Germany, there was not a much larger
> potential opponent -- one we did not wish to go to war with -- just
> beyond the far border of the primary opponent.
>
> In Korea and Vietnam, there was.
>
> The "stab in the back" reading of Vietnam says that we fought with one
> hand tied behind our backs... that it was unfair to our soldiers not
> to "go all the way" for victory. It would be interesting to take a
> time machine back to, say, 1968 and poll American troops in RVN: (1)
> Would you approve a policy to conquer North Vietnam outright and
> install a new regime? (2) Would you approve if it meant you'd be
> fighting China? My brother, who was there then, votes "no." (Actually,
> he votes "no fucking way -- are you crazy?")
>
> US troops in Korea in the winter of 1951 weren't real big on
> MacArthur's choice to "go all the way" to the Yalu...
>

Neither were the Chinese..... but that was in 50 Macarthur was removed in April 1951

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