RapierFugue
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ORIGINAL: Moonhead was that Nixon betrayed the troops by pulling out of Vietnam after the war was practically won. There was no stage of the Vietnam war at which any sane person could claim the USA had "practically won". There was the “where the fuck are the enemy” stage, the “we’ve found them, but this isn’t going very well, guys” stage, the “FFS, where are all these little yellow bastards coming from?!” stage, the “we’re killing them 50 deep with superior technology but they just seem to keep coming – I think they’re breeding like rabbits” stage, the “we seem to be gaining the upper hand but by christ it’s a close run thing” stage, the “holy shit, thousands more of the fuckers have just turned up and pitched in” stage, the “well we dealt with that lot, there can’t possibly be any more, so what’s for dinner” stage, the “what the fuck was that?!” stage (aka The Custer Effect stage), and the “we’ve had our arses handed to us in a sling, we’re fucking off now” stage. The only time the USA is even credited with a draw is in the wonderful world of Red Dwarf, with Rimmer’s “haircut” theory of conflict success: “Why did the US cavalry beat the Indian nation? Short back and sides versus girly-hippie locks. Cavaliers and the Roundheads? 1-0 to the pudding-basins. Vietnam ... crew-cuts both sides, no score draw.”
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