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Saken wrote:I don't think there is a justification, to be honest, for the Vietnam war, but I also do not think we should -not- have fought it, if it makes any sense. We did, at least, help people get free- and we did at least show communism that we would fight for the will of people who were being repressed.
At the same time, what people did in Vietnam, to the enemies and to those who were not enemies, were not right- they should not be condoned, an they had no excuse for it. At the same time, I believe (after reading a book from the American Solider side) that sometimes the enemy is not so easy to guess. A lot of American soldiers died when they were tryin to protect north Vietnam citizens, and some of the south Vietnam citizens hid, and slaughtered.
It's hard to not kill when everything looks like the enemy.
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tommithetaco wrote:I don't think there was much of a point in it. The Japanese got antsy, and I guess the Koreans were in the way...No justification, though.
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WAAAGH! wrote:The Vietnam War was a statement made by the United States to Soviet Russia that communism (and more importantly Soviet Influence) would be fought on all fronts no matter the cost. Soviet Russia made similar statements in Afghanistan. The Vietnam War was just one of the many statements made in the ever going battle for Influence during the Cold War. Much of the Cold War was fought and won by bluffing and making the Soviet Union believe we had more than what we had and that we would be willing to go farther than them. The Arms races and wars (Vietnam and Korean) were a major part in the United States’ victory over Soviet Russia in the Cold War.
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