58,217 Americans were killed
153,452 Americans were wounded
1,947 Americans were missing
US involvement in the war lasted 8 - 10 years depending on what measure you're using.
Should America have stayed in Vietnam?
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hUCA9LJAzfidTwN2Jc_GypujEZfQD8T74CDO0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties
2007-12-01 04:46:20 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
John McCain was "playing" to the industrial military complex. NO ONE could believe it was a just or right war. We were supposedly protecting the US from communism and Red China.
Interesting how we lost the war and yet.....China and Vietnam both have "most favored nation trading status". What a joke! (and yet Cuba who never fired a shot at us in aggression is still under blockade! which in simply inhumane!)
If you want a good assessment on the Vietnam war, watch the documentary "Fog of War". It is a retrospective by Robert McNamara, then Secretary of War. He'll tell you how wrong the war was!
An after thought: Those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. Apparently the chimp didn't know about the mistakes of Vietnam when he embarked on Iraq. Oh well, stupid is as stupid does.
2007-12-01 05:12:04 · answer #1 · answered by jersey girl in exile 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
No, we should have stayed out of Vietnam to begin with. We told the French a war couldn't be won there,yet we didn't heed our own advice. You need to recheck your math. The US was financially involved under Truman. The US military involvement started under Ike. The military "advisers" were not giving speeches and having meetings.
2007-12-01 05:07:10 · answer #2 · answered by here to help 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
McCain might be right, but public opinion was right, too. We needed to get out of there. We were just killling people by the 10's of thousands trying to support a corrupt government.
Vietnam is a vacation paradise today.
2007-12-01 04:52:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
What's he talking about.
Vietnam was about 2 issues we accomplished both.
Issue 1, Stop Communist expansion into Southeast Asia.
Issue 2, Prevent the Straights of Malacca from falling into Communist control.
Sure we had a messy departure But the objective was meet.
Sorry John; but your view from the Hanoi Hilton is skewed. We did not lose in Vietnam. We were guilty of not leaving when the job was done.
2007-12-01 05:02:56 · answer #4 · answered by whirling W dervish 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Well,McCain is right. We had the Tet Offensive won, but Congress buckled under the pressure from the pot heads. Nixon wanted to be reelected so he ordered them home.
Now to day we have the same old 2@t,except this time it's the demonstrators of that time in the Congress leading the mob.
I wouldn't want to be the person in Congress or the White House when this Congress gets it's way and America is hit with a series of terrorist attacts.
2007-12-01 05:01:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Your body counts don't tell the story. Then again liberals revise the History any way to fit the template which is not working for you in Iraq. In Vietnam we were winning but we also had a Draft. The people in theater did not want to be there. Drug Abuse among conscripts was huge. Why they even imported the problem. Liberals with the help of their communist allies continued to undermine support like today except the Liberals had a monopoly on the media then. Not Now.
2007-12-01 05:22:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
yup, Americans couldn't stomach a 10 year war with 60,000 dead and with no purpose other than to support a government that couldn't stand on it's own...they didn't sell us Vietnam and they didn't sell us Iraq....if it was important to be in those places...i mean really important...they would have sold it to us...but they most they ever had was their own ideology...an ideology that most Americans found lacking
2007-12-01 04:55:29 · answer #7 · answered by Ford Prefect 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
McCain needs a psychiatrist.
2007-12-01 08:33:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Politics got the U.S. in Vietnam the same excuse the U.S. backed the Shah of Iran.
2007-12-01 04:59:38 · answer #9 · answered by !truth! 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Truth is, McCain makes a very valid point regardless of how one feels about the war.
The Viet Cong were defeated militarily, but very successful in their public relations war in America.
2007-12-01 05:16:07 · answer #10 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋