So, Fidel, with 50,000 dead Amerikans, you think the U.S. could have beat the Vietnamese people if they really really wanted to?
And I still didn't hear your comment about Professor Emeritus Reynolds' view that 19 "Arabs" couldn't have pulled off the WTC attacks.
See, here's what I think:
1. The Vietnamese people beat the shit out of the U.S. Whether they built a paradise on earth after or not, is quite a separate issue. They militarily, politically, ideologically wiped out the mighty beast.
2. It would appear that a group of fanatical suiciders hijacked four aircraft and attacked some buildings on Sept. 11, 2001, in a pretty minor-league kind of attack, which Amerika was too incompetent, too ignorant, and too ill-prepared to see coming, let alone stop.
3. I think there's a real live insurgency by real live Afghan people in Afghanistan - [b]not financed by Amerika[/b] - which one of these days soon will wipe the U.S., Kanada, and NATO's coalesced butt, along with their puppets.
And, of course, I appreciate your contrary view that the U.S. and its allies are really behind all these seeming defeats of the U.S. and its allies. I just don't think your view stands up to any kind of historical or scientific logic. I think it's a view based on excessive respect for the invincibility of the United States.