I already know much of everything about America’s mediation in the Vietnam War, so this is going to be more opinionated than anything. Be prepared because this is a whole reminiscence of my 8th grade year.
Communism to the United States is one of the principle threats against the American ideology of democracy. Therefore we label it as evil. There isn’t even much to be said among the topic because most are not even willing to listen, and this is clearly exhibited by the Vietnam War. On the logic of the “Domino Theory” we, as the great world power position that is presumed, believe that we have the right to intervene in another’s country affairs to prevent their ‘ill-nature’ from spreading to infection to us and others. Much like an epidemic. Of course this only makes sense if one stands in the bias that communism is a virus in the first place. Oddly enough although, this theory was formed after our involvement in the war; which of course makes it sound like we’re full of it. America has a history of placing itself in situations where it doesn’t belong, and avoid issues within its own boundaries that look for addressing. There are only two obvious reasons why we would force our participation, need they even be said. Money and expansion, and expansion only because it leads to money, and money to power. We are capitalists, this is just what we do, and what was prescribed in our constitution when we manifested Manifest Destiny.
http://www.learnhistory.org.uk/vietnam/reasons.htm
Read more in-depth? : http://www.vvaw.org/about/warhistory.php
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