Originally Posted by Pogo

Doesn't it occur to you that from the perspective of the average South Vietnamese citizen, the division of their country was an unnatural artifice, hence unification with the North would be considered perfectly natural?

Furthermore, we were at a political disadvantage in the South. The North was viewed by the rural population more favorably than we were, which is why we undertook to bomb them out of the countryside, which is completely antithetical to the concept of democracy, no?