Do you feel that the Vietnam War was justified? Why or Why not?

Answer 1

A very good question! I am glad it's not another question about Iraq, or another comparison to Iraq. When the Viet Minh began to fight in 1945, it was for independence, economic reconstruction, and physical survival. It was not "a domino" with designs to conquer all of Asia. When the Viet Minh declared the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in Sept., 1945, France quickly returned and denied the Vietnamese people their independence and their revolution. At the time,1945, there was no way France would have been able to help the majority of people in Vietnam achieve economic reconstruction, since France itself just came through World War II. The French fighting the Vietnamese to maintain it as a French possession was not justified. Enter the United States. Formerly opposed to the Europeans and their colonies, the U.S. changed their post-war policies and began funding the French war, which France ultimately lost. The Vietnamese had won the battle (Dien Bien Phu), and the political war. To make a long story short, the U.S. stepped in with its new program of dividing Vietnam by denying it elections (the Viet Minh would have won all of Vietnam), propping up an unpopular leader (Ngo Dinh Diem), and "paying any cost" (JFK's words) whether it was financial, military, political, or social, or with the lives of the American and Vietnamese people - the war still was not justified.

Answer 2

Vietnam accomplished one thing for sure, due to the length of the war it stretched those that supported North Vietnam financially. The Soviet Union for one began it's financial destruction that ended with the fall of communism . I don't know about the "domino Theory" due to the fact that Cambodia and Laos ended up as Communist Countries anyways. The lie that escalated the Vietnam war was the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Johnson used that lie to escalate our troop involvement.
It is also known that we turned away and allowed assassinations at the upper levels of the Vietnamese Government and hand picked the leaders that were in the minority of the Vietnamese population. Today Vietnam is economically strong and operates more as an Democratic country than it does as a Communist country.

Answer 3

Yes it was.
The domino threat was a real one and needed to be addressed. Unfortunately, like our current war, Vietnam also became a war of opportunity for a lot of people to make money and have alternative motives, however, that does not mean the entire mission was a pointless one.
Although the U.S. lost the Vietnam war, it showed our enemies, Russia & China to what extent we were willing to go to protect democratic regimes. Russia and China invested a lot of money into Vietnam, it was very costly to them. They were not as quick after Vietnam to support other governments thinking about going communist. The threat was that if the U.S. could invest 30-50 thousand lives in a fight and do that much damage to a country or a region...was it really worth the chance of going to war again.

Answer 4

Yes... It was to help stop the spread of Communism throughout the world. If you didn't live in the fifty and sixties then you have no idea what it was like. You can't grasp or feel the energy and excitement from a book about The Bear and the Eagle. Many people still don't realizes how close we came. The Cuban missiles was only a small event. It is a shame that war beings death but what better way to die then to die for your country.

Answer 5

Before I would have said "no." It wasn't our place to go into another country to stop Communism. Let them handle it and if they became Communist, it wouldn't affect us (which it didn't). But, I have been with my guy for a year who is Vietnamese and listening to him and his family has provided me new insight into their world during the time of the war. They really, really appeciated our efforts and our help. They didn't want to see us go. They didn't want to become a Communist country. They were very sad to see us go. I had to explain to his father quite a few times, that we had to. It was an unpopular war and the people wanted the troops home. But, for what? The American people spat at our troops. It was sad times all around.

Answer 6

Never Never & Never. Just remind the loss after Vietnam War. I hope u'll get ur answer.

War is an unjustified thing. Think about it.

Answer 7

Yes, we needed to contain the imperialistic spread of communism and prevent it from infecting other parts of the world. I agree with some people, justified but bad execution. Anyone who tells you all we did was kill people and lose lots of soldiers needs to stop watching Hollywood movies, because they do not depict reality.

Answer 8

The French started the war, so naturally it was a lost cause from the beginning.

Answer 9

tough question

probably not, in hindsight

people felt that communism and soviet russia was a real "threat", so the u.s. president thought it would be best to war

unfortunately, whether it was justified or not; nothing came good out of it, except maybe a tough lesson

Answer 10

by Anonymous

Remember the day I borrowed your brand
new car and dented it?
I thought you'd kill me, but you didn't.

And remember the time I dragged you to the beach,
and you said it would rain, and it did?
I thought you'd say, "I told you so." But you didn't.

Do you remember the time I flirted with all
the guys to make you jealous, and you were?
I thought you'd leave, but you didn't.

Do you remember the time I spilled strawberry pie
all over your car rug?
I thought you'd hit me, but you didn't.

And remember the time I forgot to tell you the dance
was formal and you showed up in jeans?
I thought you'd drop me, but you didn't.

Yes, there were lots of things you didn't do.
But you put up with me, and loved me, and protected me.

There were lots of things I wanted to make up to you
when you returned from Vietnam.

But you didn't.

Read that and think. It was written by the wife of a 25 years old soldier.
Those guys were humans, not statistics.