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Originally posted by Nyenrodian
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?
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South Vietnam was way smaller, and it became communist anyways when the US left. It was 50 000 US lives and 2-3 million Vietnamese lives lost for no reason.