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Question

do you think America should have entered the Vietnam war and why?

Answer 1

No. Because we should not be trying to rule the world and tell other cultures how to live. All we accomplished was over 50,000 dead Americans and many more Vietnamese. We didn't win then and we can't win now. Bring our troops home alive, now.

Answer 2

America had a problem. A serious problem is a place that most Americans have never heard of. Fulda Gap. It's in Germany. It's the Gap, that's where the Soviet Block had 220 Mechanized Divisions aimed. The Americans had Baby Boomers, outdated tanks, outdated personal, outdated strategy, ineffective planes. And there was a Missile Gap. Vietnam was 12,000 miles away. They couldn't follow us home. They were armed to the teeth with Warson Pact weapons. We did not care how many of them we killed. We had to become proficient with weapons in a major way, and we needed to do it with the Boomers. Vietnam would allow live fire with any kind of weapons we could bring to bear, but no nukes. We loaded Vietnam with 500,000 troops, practiced all types of land warfare, and didn't invade Noth Vietnam. We perfected smart bombing. We perfected search and destroy, kill boxes, LERP's, special forces, SEALS, Delta Force. We gained experience with river warfare. We used Chemical Weapons, (Agent Orange). We developed large explosives for helicopter insertions, (Daisy Cutters) We developed laser range finders, starlight scopes. Our Airforce found out that their much ballyhooded F-4 Phantom was a sled. We discovered that all fighter aircraft require an automatic cannon to stay alive. Smokeless engines became standard. The main airframe to come out of Vietnam was that of
F-15 Eagle. A formidable aircraft to this day. Computerized Aircarft become standard. The current F-22 is a flying computer. The B-52 became the meanest thing ever known, untill the advent of the AC-130 Spectre Gunship. We found out that our Main Battle Tank, the M-60 was to loud, slow, and tall, it was underarmed, and against Warsaw Pact forces would have been a death trap. The replacement the M1A1 Abrams is one the most dangerous tanks ever made and has proven itself again and again to be decisive in the field. The Bradley Fighting Vehicle, although not without troubles, is vastly superior to the aluminun troop carrier it replaces. By the end of the war, we had done in 3.5 million Vietnamese, lost 50 thousand of our own, and battle trained 22 million troops. We broke the bank of the Soviet Block shortly after that and went through the Iraqis in a couple of weeks. The training continues, but now we have to settle for the Iraqis. They just arn't half of the Vietnamese. But it wasn't the Vietnamese we were planning on saving, but the Europeans.

Answer 3

Appletre; That's a very good question. Shortly after ww2 ,the French were overwhelmed in a portion of the world called Frenc-Indochina, The US , under Pres. D. Eisenhower, the former Supreme Allied Commander, (because we bailed the French out in the '40's) decided to help them again. The pres. chose to assist them with arms and training. When the French bailed out in the '50's, guess who was left. We had just beat the axis in the '40's, we were still fighting(as we still are), in Korea.Could we just run away from the communists in South East Asia? I don't think so. Therefore, we basically got stuck with it. See where it got us?Look at what's happened since. We used to be the greatest country in the world. The qualifier in my last sentence is 'used to be'. If we as Americans, are going to last in this world we have to change our ways. Political correctness is not correct. We've become soft in this world. It's up to our young people to get us out of this mess. The phrase- Those that don't know history, are destined to repeat it- is happening right before our eyes. If our young people don't learn, and stop this downward spiral, this country won't last another twenty-five years!

Answer 4

no because we didn't understand the history of the country and the war.

unfortunately at that time the us looked at the world from the view that we had to stop communism everywhere. this blinded us to the real reasons for problems problems around the world. this is why we supported horrible dictatorships because they were "democratic" instead of communist.

all the vietnamese had ever wanted was to be free of foreign influence. they withstood 1000 years of oppression by china, then they became a colony of france. the us didn't understand this.

after ww1 president Wilson made overtures to end colonialism. this inspired ho chi minh to come to the us and declare vietnamese independence using the us declaration of independence word for word. president wilson wouldn't meet with ho chi minh.

having given up on help from the us ho chi minh turned to communist russia and china for support. eventually they would rebel against the french. since they vietnamese were being supported by communists the us leadership felt we must help the french because we needed to contain communism and we got involved in the war.

the rest...as they say...is history.

Answer 5

no, it was a civil war

Answer 6

Not at all.