A
tell me what you think about the Vietnam war.
B
Okay. Well, I'm a Vietnam era veteran, and, uh, I was, uh, fortunate not to have to serve in the theater, however, my support roll in the service was to support those in the theater of operation. Uh, I'm of the old school that believes that, uh, the, uh, uh, contracts that we made back years ago needed to be honored. However, uh, I think we could have executed the war and gotten it over a whole lot quicker. Uh, but those are my personal thoughts, and I think that if we'd let the generals run the war like we let the generals run World War Two we'd had got it over a whole lot quicker and lost a lot fewer people. But as it was, the politicians ran the, the Korean conflict and ultimately the Vietnam thing, and we managed to come out, uh, losers all the way around. And so this is what trigger-, ultimately triggered us, uh, United States, uh, per se, being, uh, deciding to get out of the role of world policeman. Your views,
A
Uh, as I understand it, and I, uh, don't know a lot about it, uh, we got in there because of France --
B
Well.
A
-- uh, France was there first. They had,
B
We got into it because of SEATO agreement, back just right after World War Two that, uh, we pledged a mutual, uh, uh, defense of, of the South Vietnamese, and as it turned out they were in a civil war one with another, and really we I, I question us, you know, now, of course hindsight is all too clear.