It wasn't rice farmers who took on the US. It was the battle hardened vietnamese army who fought imperial japan and then imperial france for many years. Also, even though they ultimately won, they didn't really kick ass. More than 4 million vietnamese died in the vietnam war. Less than 60 thousand americans died. It was one of the most lopsided bloodbaths in human history. That's with tons of sino-soviet military aid to the "rice farmers".
elfexec|6 years ago