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re: Vietnam War: Mistake or not
Posted on 8/19/23 at 6:01 pm to TutHillTiger
Posted on 8/19/23 at 6:01 pm to TutHillTiger
Total mistake. The domino effect was not real.
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Posted on 8/19/23 at 6:05 pm to upgrade
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Total mistake.
LBJ was a big mistake.
Posted on 8/19/23 at 6:12 pm to upgrade
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Total mistake. The domino effect was not real.
Not only that, but it undermined our position. Communism is a shite economic system that will inevitably fail. Just leave it the frick alone. If you have to bomb a country to "save them from communism", it makes you look like you're actually afraid communism will be successful.
Posted on 8/19/23 at 6:13 pm to upgrade
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Total mistake. The domino effect was not real
Watched one documentary that showed written proof of letters from Ho Chi Minh that pleaded for peace. He did not want war or even much to do with Communism and did not plan to follow Soviet Russia into a communist state. Somehow that was hidden from public til long after the war ended.
This post was edited on 8/19/23 at 6:14 pm
Posted on 8/19/23 at 6:18 pm to upgrade
Capitalism would won the day anyways. If people who claim to hate communism actually believed that, there was no reason to put boots on the ground. This applies to any foreign war America has fought, including the one occurring right now.
Posted on 8/19/23 at 6:59 pm to upgrade
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Total mistake. The domino effect was not real.
I hear that from people, and yet after we left and stopped supporting the South Vietnamese, what happened?
South Vietnam fell to communism. Laos fell to communism. Cambodia fell to communism. Vietnam was all in both countries. The communists of SE Asia finally ran out of steam at the Thai border.
Sounds like dominos falling.
Perhaps if we had not forced them to fight for so long and they had not lost so many men, communism might have continued it's spread to Thailand, Burma, and threatened more countries.
I do wonder if we could have avoided the whole thing by not backing the French when they tried to restore their colony. Failing that, if you are going to fight, then fight. Don't do it in a half-arse manner. Ho came to the table after we bombed the crap out of them.
Posted on 8/20/23 at 10:44 am to upgrade
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Total mistake. The domino effect was not real.
I can't agree with that.
Vietnam is communist.
Laos is communist.
Cambodia is communist.
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