Why was the vietnam war not politically justified?

Answer 1

The US role in the Viet Nam war is only represented as benign in the US. The record shows quite a different story. The US became involved in 'Nam in order to protect an ally's colonial interests. It had little to do with communism and much to do with the US fight against self determination as it continues today.
In other words, the US gov. feels that to allow any government in the world to demonstrate that it is possible to have a meaningful democracy, a system chosen by the people and not by Washington, must be eradicated.
How do i back my claim up? Well, i can list a variety of examples of US intereference through covert and overt operations to destabilize governments that attempted to determine their own paths, towards socialism or nationalism. The COld War cannot be explained in terms of a USSR/US rivalry because the USSR was much weaker than advertised by the US and the Soviet Union could barely keep itself together under the continuous attacks of the US.
Well here is a short list:
1953- Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian Nationalist president, CIA toppled
1954- Julio Arbenz, Guatemalan Nationalist president, CIA toppled
1970- Sukarno, Indonesian Nationalist president, Toppled by general Suharto with help from the CIA
1973- Salvador Allende, Chilean Marxist, toppled by general Augusto Pinochet with help from CIA
1970's- Michael Manley, Jamaican nationalist/socialist punished through economic sanctions
1983- Grenada invaded after following Maurice Bishop's New Jewel Movement (nationalist)

Well, there are many events that prove the US is an empire. And like any other empire it attacks those who defy its hegemonic control. Also, the US has a long history of empire building in the Philipines, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, CUba, Mexico, Panama.... placing friendly dictators in Guatemala, EL Salvador, Nicaragua.
You see, the Viet Nam war was as justified as Hitler's invasion of Poland. Except it took much longer and US soldiers did much more damage through rape, carpet bombing, the use of napalm and agent orange and torture.
The US government is widely agreed to have committed heinous crimes against humanity but as of yet no one has been held accountable.

Answer 2

you have intermixed 2 distinctive questions; a million war and peace as that coverage dispute performed out over the Viet Nam war 2The public loss of believe and self assurance in national government previously and after Watergate, and Pres. Nixon's resignation. the super differences you communicate over with resulted from Watergate, no longer the Vietnam war. seem up the well-known public opinion tables in G. Lewy's e book on Vietnam public opinion. Even the draft-age cohorts, 18-25 constantly fashionable the war; it become the small minority of scholars in some faculties that have been given all the media interest, and gave the impression to be maximum human beings. seem at Gallup opinion polls in later '70s and the only national company that had a majority of public help become the U. S. protection stress, non the political areas, or events. Used motor vehicle salesmen have been theory extra undemanding than politicians.

Answer 3

Those who say it was unjustified claim that we got ourselves involved in a civil war between the North and the South and that we had no business doing that. Justifiers claim that the war was an attempt on the part of the United States to stop the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia. Take your pick.

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Answer 4

first it was not a war, a conflict, never declared war against vietnam............for that very reason is part of the political injustice......the others could be the radical youth of the 60s along with the change in tv, music, God being taken out of school. the war we are in now mimics the vietnam conflict in that there are several thousand troops in and out, young and old........the only difference being the kids today are not being forced, the draft, to enter the military.

Answer 5

It was not about people, it was about off shore oil and other resouces. ur government sought to keep a tyrant in power, because he was friendly to the US. We really had nothing to gain by staying Viet Nam. We lost a lot of fine people there and really for nothing. It was muscle flexing between the communists and the US. Good people on both sides died for nothing except they were from one nation or another. It did not have to be so!

Answer 6

The idea was that if one country in Asia (China) fell to communism, then all of them would. So the US tried to prevent communism in Vietnam and other places as well.
We know now that the "dominoe" theory of :one nation falling to communism, and then the rest of them will, is false. So, it really wasn't a necessary war.

Answer 7

Because it was lost.