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2013-03-16 06:47 9212851 Anonymous (The new pope.jpg 226x234 10kB)
If America is so great then why couldn't they defeat Vietnam?

1 min later 9212883 Anonymous
>>9212851 Gorilla warfare

1 min later 9212894 Anonymous
Because these dirty gooks used cheap tactics...

2 min later 9212920 Ignis
>>9212883 10/10

3 min later 9212930 Anonymous
>muh support

3 min later 9212931 Anonymous
>>9212883 fat fuck

5 min later 9212974 Anonymous (lolwut.jpg 620x400 25kB)
>>9212851 because Captain America doesn't exist at that time

5 min later 9212979 Anonymous
>>9212894 No tactic is a cheap tactic when defending yourself.

5 min later 9212989 Anonymous
because ching chongs breed faster than modern automatic rifles can shoot

6 min later 9213002 Anonymous
>>9212974 i love you malaysia. come live with me in america.

6 min later 9213019 Anonymous
>>9212931 Love you too, UK<3

7 min later 9213023 Irishfag
>>9212851 Asymmetrical warfare. The gooks wore the Americans down until they didn't have the political backing to support the war. Quite a good strategy really.

8 min later 9213056 Anonymous
>>9212851 Because of us, of course.

8 min later 9213062 Anonymous (VFS.jpg 1400x937 174kB)
>>9212851

9 min later 9213081 Anonymous
>>9213062 VIETNAM FUCKING SHIT

9 min later 9213089 Anonymous
>>9213023 You would know, Irish - you lot are experts on that subject :3

10 min later 9213103 Anonymous
>>9213002 yes i love brazzers

11 min later 9213122 Anonymous
>>9212851 Wait, did they not educate you on the war? Probably not I guess they don't really have a reason to.

11 min later 9213135 Anonymous
We weren't allowed to invade the North because people were afraid of China.

12 min later 9213151 Anonymous
>>9213122 >implying USA defeated Vietnam

13 min later 9213172 Anonymous
It was a ruse, we never intended to win >could have conquered the north within a month if our troops were allowed

13 min later 9213179 Anonymous
What kind of war involves killing 150,000 children with biochemical weapons? They deserved that loss.

15 min later 9213235 Anonymous
>>9213179 >Agent Orange >MUH BIOCHEMICAL BABY KILLIN WEAPONZ

18 min later 9213292 Anonymous
Vietnam was better at war than them :3

19 min later 9213315 Anonymous
>>9213235 >Agent Orange >lol MUH DEFORMED BABIES lol >11/9 >never forget :'(

19 min later 9213323 Anonymous
For such a powerful country America really is shit at fighting a war.

21 min later 9213354 Anonymous
>>9213323 For such a 1st world country, Ireland really is shit at being stable.

21 min later 9213367 Anonymous
>>9212931 And the winner of the shitposting Olympics (but not the real Olympics, lol) is THE SHITSTAIN

22 min later 9213377 Anonymous
>>9213172 I think you mean >could have conquered the half the north before china intervened and fucked our troops up

23 min later 9213399 Anonymous
>>9213354 For such an economic superpower you guys really don't have that much money

23 min later 9213400 Anonymous
>>can't win against Japan solution : nuked them >>can't win against Vietnam solution : poisoned them AmerIcia !! Fuck YEAH !!

24 min later 9213431 Anonymous
>>9213399 We have more money than you'll ever have. EVER

24 min later 9213443 Anonymous
>>9213431 >muh -16 trillion dollars

25 min later 9213463 Anonymous
>>9213431 You misspelled 'debt'.

26 min later 9213483 Anonymous
>>9213443 >Australian GDP 1.5 trillion >American GDP 15.9 trillion lol

26 min later 9213496 Anonymous
>>9212851 Well, given the way your logic works, you have to wonder about the first premise if you find contradictory evidence, OP.

26 min later 9213499 Anonymous
Because you just can't win against the guerrilla.

26 min later 9213502 Anonymous
>>9213463 You think we will ever pay anyone back? That's cute :3

27 min later 9213517 Anonymous (history.gif 474x471 5kB)
>>9213483 ouch

28 min later 9213531 Anonymous
>>9213517 http://www.australiandebtclock.com. au/ ouch >lol still making more money than you

29 min later 9213551 Anonymous
>>9213531 >still owing more fix'd

30 min later 9213566 Anonymous
>>9213517 >>9213531 Debt niggers ITT.

32 min later 9213607 Anonymous
>>9213551 Your debt is three times worse than the amount of money your country even generates You'll be owing money longer than we will.

34 min later 9213672 Anonymous
>>9213607 You make it seem like you aren't going to blow trillions and trillions fighting wars again :3 how cute >>9213566 shut up, you're less relevant than Australia and that says a lot

36 min later 9213714 Anonymous
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Povert y_in_the_United_States Strong living standards/10

37 min later 9213738 Anonymous
>>9213672 The only wars we've been starting have been backed by Australia. >>9213566 You're in debt too. >lol chechnya >still rebuilding cities destroyed by own government

38 min later 9213757 Anonymous
>>9213714 Poverty rates are exactly the same in Australia

38 min later 9213761 Anonymous
>>9213738 m8 Australia latches on to everything the U.S. does, I'm not even denying that

1 hours later 9214753 Anonymous
>>9213151 Saying we were trying to "defeat" Vietnam indicates little understanding on the subject. I'm not hear to say America won but don't bother if you are going to just throw some words out there and hope they work.

1 hours later 9214789 Anonymous
>>9213738 People are shocked by our debt but what most people don't understand is that we could accumulate worlds more debt before it's a REAL problem.

1 hours later 9215042 Anonymous
North Vietnam just kept massacring entire communities of people. Prolonging the war would have just made things worse. Military-wise US-South Vietnam won.

1 hours later 9215066 Anonymous
>>9215042 >North Vietnam just kept massacring entire communities of people. To be fair, the Americans did the same.

1 hours later 9215067 Anonymous
China couldn't either. Nor could France. Vietnam is surprising hard to defeat.

1 hours later 9215315 Anonymous
>>9215067 I've heard they had one of the best air forces in the world. Also I would say the reason was that USA from an economical or political reason, wasn't able to go full berzerk

1 hours later 9215353 Anonymous
>>9215315 >berzerk berserk***

1 hours later 9215365 Anonymous (vfs1.jpg 994x759 127kB)
>>9212851 >The new pope.jpg lel

1 hours later 9215551 Anonymous
>>9215315 In terms of strength (numbers)? Nah. They have a lot of old MiG-21s, but in terms of modern fighters they're not any stronger than Thailand or Indonesia.

2 hours later 9215590 Anonymous
>>9212851 a.) muh jungle warfare b.) collapse of public support

2 hours later 9215643 Anonymous
>implying the Vietnamese War was considered a loss

2 hours later 9215684 Anonymous
>>9215551 In terms of skills, also I guess that by the time of the war the mig-21 were ok or good.

2 hours later 9215686 Anonymous
>>9215643 But we didn't accomplish our goals there.

2 hours later 9215703 Anonymous
>>9215686 Which were?

2 hours later 9215707 Anonymous
>>9215686 not all of them, but did you expect any country to fare any better?

2 hours later 9215723 Anonymous
>>9215643 >North Vietnamese victory >Withdrawal of American forces from Indochina >Communist governments take power in South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos >South Vietnam is annexed by North Vietnam Pretty convincing win for the commies if you ask me.

2 hours later 9215733 Anonymous
>>9212851 because a regular army will usually be shat on by guerilla fighters who know the terrain and fuck up supply lines. and set amushes. and other shit. same thing happens in afganistan actually. you'd have to kill everything with fire and magnets to win a war like that

2 hours later 9215762 Anonymous
>>9215703 To stamp out the commies. We withdrew, the commies were still there.

2 hours later 9215790 Anonymous
>>9215703 To stop Vietnam becoming communist? >>9215707 Who was best suited to invade is irrelevant. You still lost.

2 hours later 9215838 Anonymous
>>9215684 Yeah, but they'd be basically useless today.

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