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Posted by faran1 (U2570961) on Thursday, 24th November 2005
Hi evrybody
I have been wondering if the vietnam war was right or was it mistake for america to go to vietnam?
Earth to faran....do you copy....Earth to faran ???
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Posted by Dirk Marinus (U1648073) on Thursday, 24th November 2005
Hi evrybody
I have been wondering if the vietnam war was right or was it mistake for america to go to vietnam?Β
faran1.
Tell us what do you think????
Faran, the best way to learn about History is to read lots of books. Sind sie Deutsche ?
Hindsight is 20/20,
Is it right, looking back for (Not only the US, but Australia, New Zealand, South Korea amongst others) the Vietnam war to be fought? No. But was it deemed right at the time? Yes.
I think the question should be, not was it right, but what should they have done to win.
Rply to messege 3
I think that yes and no
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Posted by KCLUndergrad (U2561619) on Thursday, 24th November 2005
oh that's beautiful farai, good answer!! Seriously though, what are your views? Feel perfectly free to ellaborate on 'yes and no'...
It was probably 'right' in terms of halting global Communist expansion and an armed invasion, not dissimialar to the Korean War. However, the way it was waged, with no means of actually 'winning' was hopeless. There's an element of 'wrong' as well in that the South Vietnamese government was corrupt and despotic. Of course, 'Right' and 'Wrong' are a matter of perspective - the US felt it was right to stop another military Communist attack, the North Vietnamese felt they were right in a continuation of the Indo-China war for freedom from colonial western nations.
Hi mahros
Don't you think that america knew thar she enters a "secend japan"?
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