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Originally posted by geep
Why stop there? During WWII the United States funded and aided a fellow by the name of Ho Chi Minh in his fight against the Japanese in Indochina. This later cost the lives of 50,000+ Americans in Vietnam. Should we not have helped him? What would history have written differently if we hadn't? Gazing into a crystal ball to judge the future is not an option- people must react to current circumstance. The only thing certain is change.
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Hmmm, what does aiding Ho Chi Minh have to do with the loss of American lives in Vietnam?
If LBJ would not have gone into Vietnam, no American lives would have been lost either. It was just the fear for communism that caused LBJ to start a war in Vietnam. If America would not have started supplying the French (who were basically running South Vietnam then) with weapons etc. The French grew tired of the war and backed out. That is when the USA stepped in themselves.
The only thing that would have happened had the USA not infered is that the south also turned communist.
Just to remain a bit ontopic, how do Americans in general feel about the French and Vietnamese?