2007-12-03 14:02:58 · 12 answers · asked by Cassie A 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Someone once said that war was good for the economy.
Obviously, it doesn't matter whose battles are being fought as long as there's some fighting going on somewhere.
No, the US should not have been involved in the Viet Nam conflict. It was a civil war, not a world war.
2007-12-04 09:50:30 · answer #1 · answered by >>Phoenix<< 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but for the other side and against France. If the U.S. got involved in 1947 during the first Indochina War, the area problably would have been a Democratic capitalist area. Of course going back to war just as soon as WWII ended and against our WWII ally France would have been just as unpopular (although overrunning French positions in Africa during WWII didn't cause hard feelings with the French). Waiting three years resulted in the U.S. involvement of Korea and Vietnam and really helped the Communist cause. The Communists didn't get involved till the U.S. already picked sides.
China later tried to invade Vietnam in Feburary and March of 1979 as punishment for Vietnam invading Cambodia (so much for the Domino theory), but China withdrew because of heavy casualties.
2007-12-03 15:10:43 · answer #2 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, from 1959 thru 1975 a total of 58,479 service persons were killed not to mention the ones who were injured both physical and mentally.Look at the US again, now in Iraq , the same thing is happening again and the end result will be the same, what a waste of human life , you would think the US learned but they haven't and never will.
2007-12-03 14:14:07 · answer #3 · answered by low_hd_rider 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so because it was a war over economic interests and not in self-defense or a pre-emptive strike, like afghanistan or Iraq.
2007-12-03 14:10:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No we should have realized even then that it was a civil war and the last vestiges of French colonialism in its death agony.
McNamara's "Domino Theory" was just as bogus as Bush's WMD theory and the Army's "body counts" were just as misleading as today's "surge counts".
2007-12-03 15:13:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. It was a tragic loss of more than 50,000 American lives and billions of dollars that could have been avoided. The end result would have been no different.
2007-12-03 14:07:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hindsight is 20/20.
2007-12-03 14:07:23 · answer #7 · answered by David B 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
yeah we probobly shouldn't have, but were america and we dont stand for that S H I T!!!
2007-12-03 14:17:21 · answer #8 · answered by [quarantine] 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I left there 38 years ago. Ain't it about time to forget it????!!!!
2007-12-03 14:21:06 · answer #9 · answered by Too Old For Idol 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No............What did we go there for??..Stop Communism??..guess who we trade with these days
2007-12-03 14:13:05 · answer #10 · answered by Richard G 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋