How to Lose was: USA develops space-based weapons


Rand Simberg wrote:

Even General Giap believed otherwise. He said that, to the degree
that they "won," it was in the streets of America, not on the
battlefield. Al Qaeda is attempting exactly the same thing in Iraq.


http://www.viet-myths.net/buitin.htm

"Bui Tin, a former colonel in the North Vietnamese army, answers these
questions in the following excerpts from an interview conducted by
Stephen Young, a Minnesota attorney and human-rights activist [in The
Wall Street Journal, 3 August 1995].

"Q: Was the American antiwar movement important to Hanoi's victory?
A: It was essential to our strategy. Support of the war from our rear
was completely secure while the American rear was vulnerable. Every
day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m.
to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi
by people like Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and
ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of
battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red
Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of
American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us.

"Q: Did the Politburo pay attention to these visits?
A: Keenly.

"Q: Why?
A: Those people represented the conscience of America. The conscience
of America was part of its war-making capability, and we were turning
that power in our favor. America lost because of its democracy; through
dissent and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will to win. "




You can always count on defeatism to help you lose a war that you're
winning.

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