Ho Chi Osama

Is it feasible for pro-communist elements during the Vietnam War to have run an al quaeda style terrorist campaign in the US to fuel anti-war sentiment or would it galvanize US support and maybe produced a quite different result in terms of this conflict?

Where would the training and logistics originate...Im thinking via Mexico or Cuba?

Justa thought
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Al Qaeda is the wrong paradigm. That's like asking whether a e-bay-like company could have flourished in the Eisenhower years. The going assumption was that carde groups would galvanise support by goading the state into heavy-handed repression and then lead the revolution. That was tried. Didn't work terribly well, though.
 

CalBear

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That would be a terrific way to get the U.S. anti-war movement to evaporate in an instant. Attack the U.S. on AMERICAN soil? It would make 9/11's reaction look like a hay ride

That would be enough to get all the most Hawkish elements of the U.S. to become mainstream.

Expect U.S. occupation and pacification of the North to follow the first attack by about 60 days.

Expect to see the NVA leadership brought up on War Crime charges in about 120 days.

See the same men Hanged in about 180 days.
 
That would be a terrific way to get the U.S. anti-war movement to evaporate in an instant. Attack the U.S. on AMERICAN soil? It would make 9/11's reaction look like a hay ride

Althugh I do wonder what the Soviet response would be to terrorist attacks staged out of Cuba by NVA elements.
 

Thande

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Althugh I do wonder what the Soviet response would be to terrorist attacks staged out of Cuba by NVA elements.

Publicly condemn and privately support? Though I imagine the Soviets would fear a response, the U.S. backing their ethnic minority separatists to conduct counter-acts of terrorism in Soviet cities...
 

MacCaulay

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That would be a terrific way to get the U.S. anti-war movement to evaporate in an instant. Attack the U.S. on AMERICAN soil? It would make 9/11's reaction look like a hay ride

That was my thought. One or two bombs in America traced to the North Vietnamese or Viet Cong, and the US would take the gloves off. Linebacker II would be a warm up.
 
Althugh I do wonder what the Soviet response would be to terrorist attacks staged out of Cuba by NVA elements.

Considering the Cubans were prepared to play with fire (as was the case with the Cuban Missile Crisis). Why not run a campaign of state sponsored terrorism especially when the tide of war was against the US by the late 60's?:rolleyes:
 
That would be a terrific way to get the U.S. anti-war movement to evaporate in an instant. Attack the U.S. on AMERICAN soil? It would make 9/11's reaction look like a hay ride

That would be enough to get all the most Hawkish elements of the U.S. to become mainstream.

Expect U.S. occupation and pacification of the North to follow the first attack by about 60 days.

Expect to see the NVA leadership brought up on War Crime charges in about 120 days.

See the same men Hanged in about 180 days.

Yeah sure.
 
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