Which of these 3 wars was most important for our national security: Korean, Vietnam, or Iraq?

Question

Why is Bush the "worst ever" when time and again we are doing the same things we always have throughout history?

I guess every president will become the new worst ever. That's really an intelligent way for us to think.

Johnny Bravo makes an excellent point. They don't say that in the media though, so you must be wrong. :-)

Answer 1

Too many people are too quick to jump on the bandwagon when it comes to ending the war in Iraq. Has it occured to you that there have been no more terror-related incidents in America since 9-11? That's because the American forces are over there slowly but surely weeding out the terrorists. We are also teaching the Iraqi forces to take over in hopes that we can someday leave. If we left Iraq, or the Middle East, right now, it wouldn't be long before we started experiencing the same things that are happening over there. Just imagine car bombs blowing up next to your children's schools. Imagine suicide bombers walking into your churches. It's not as easy thing to think about, but it is very possible.

Korea and Vietnam were about real estate. Iraq (terrorists) is about life. These radical Muslims don't want our land, they want our lives. It is their goal to exterminate us.

The Iraq war is by far the most important.

Answer 2

All three of them were important. To suggest otherwise is quite frankly ultimately to belittle the sacrifice of soldiers in those respective wars. The Korean and Vietnam wars were an important and necessary deterrent to the unchecked spread of communism. Had the military and civilian leadership been permitted to act differently, either of those wars could have been won. Even the respective draw and arguable loss of those two wars sent an important message. If we had not contested the actions in those theatres we cannot be sure further dominos would not have fallen. Furthermore we could not say that the Soviet Union would no longer be in existence. All this being said I believe the Iraq War is the most important of all in terms of our national security. We are no longer dealing with an enemy that regards its own survival as important. If we do not contest totalitarian regimes and prevent the spread of WMD, they WILL be used with little regard for the sanctity of human life. I for one would prefer our country to act preemptively and with foresight to address this concern.

Answer 3

Iraq, of course. The most recent war is always the most important to our national security, both tongue-in-cheek and seriously. If nothing else, it is a test of the behaviors of those who have taken oaths to defend us and those who sneer at such oaths.

"Dateline: 10/11/02

The U.S. Congress yesterday passed a resolution authorizing President Bush to use the Armed Forces of the United States against Iraq.

The House of Representatives on Oct. 10 passed the resolution (H.J. Res. 114) by a vote of 296-133. Senate approval came in a late-night vote of 77-23."

These ratios are NOT the ratios of conservatives-to-liberals, nor Republicans-to-Democrats in Congress at the time.

Your second assertion is correct, as well. The list of"Worst American President to Date", in my lifetime, at least, is all-inclusive. Not even Kennedy escaped. In fact, HE was murdered by his detractors.

Answer 4

I'll go with Vietnam

Korea seemed important But the long term plan for China is to incorporate the Korean Peninsula like in the Days of the Manchu Dynasty. They will eventually do that.

Vietnam was more about stopping the ideology of Communist expansion than securing lands for a puppet Southvietnamese government. In that respect the tide did turn as Russia and China tried to out supply the US effort.

Iraq is a strange combination of Bush family vendetta and corporate sponsors. It has years to go before there is any lasting decisions made.


Go big Red Go

Answer 5

The Korean war was to protect the South Koreans (and more importantly the Japanese).

The Vietnamese War was to "stop" the spread of communism in the East.

So, my answer will be Iraq. Our actions in Iraq have stopped terrorist activity in the United States. There can be no other correlation since there have been no successful attacks on US soil since 9/11.

Answer 6

All were important, but arguably Korea was most important. It gave us an early victory against the communists. Vietnam would have been very benificial if we had won. Iraq will augment our security as well.

Answer 7

None of the above! We were told that "We must fight in Southeast asia before we have to fight them on our own shores".
How many years have we left Korea and Vietnam? Not one Korean nor Vietnamese has come to America in all of those years to do any harm to us!So it was a bunch of ******** to begin with.
And the same for Iraq - Saddam never did a damn thing to us!

And as for "Wild Bill " Bush, he has turned Washington Dc into "Emerald city" where our foreign and domestic policy comes straight from the Wizard of Oz!
We can always count on them to provide us with a new Boogey man of the month!

Answer 8

Communism did cease to spread after the Vietnam War. Vietnam was designed to stop the "domino effect" and spread of communism. For the most part, Vietnam stopped the spread of communism.

Answer 9

In their time all three were equally important. All three were the result of our efforts to stop the evil and terror of totalitarian governments. It is now though that we need to start looking inward because there is an enemy here, socialism and its totalitarian designs on our country.

Answer 10

None of them really were. I think "national security" is a great method of freaking out the nation's soccer moms. They tend to be the ones most gullible.