he used us as a scapegoat though

Yeah, the cold war realpolitik came back to bite us in the butt in a lot of situations (esp. with the Taliban)

Nobody else was capable or wanted to step up to the plate against the USSR, though

true

USSR is to blame for a lot of the initial causes

Yeah, cold war we did what we had to do, but then the neolibs became the new communists, so to speak

We didn't have to fight a million and half proxy wars. We just had to follow what Eisenhower did

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Eisenhower was a great president

But Eisenhower helped get us into Vietnam

Right war, wrong reasons

Granted Kennedy and LBJ pulled the trigger

He tried to keep us out, but CIA fucked everything up

I for one, am glad for Vietnam

really? why Vietnam

We should've stood by the Republic of Vietnam. Full scale involvement was a mistake.

but it was a fucking awful war

my family came to the states because of vietnam

We should've let the French lose it

oh wow, are you from South Vietnam?

my mom is from Laos

It's mainly LBJs failure. Gulf of Tonkin was under him.

and the only reason she got out is because she helped the Americans during the war

not a free pass because of the war, but because th country owed her a debt

And then we didn't bomb the dikes in the north, which would've ended the war pretty quick

https://twitter.com/reaIDonaldTrunp/status/943596434376527872

Yeah, there's a lot of Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians that came over from the war. Don't get me wrong I still hate commies, but I'm still fairly anti-war.

Thank god, finally.

im pro war for the right reasons

and if we would have waged war fairly in Vietnam, we would have won

Vietnam was a tough one, the Southern Vietnamese government was pretty corrupt and did not have much popular support

its also horrible how we treated the military and vets when they came back

And we fought a war with conscription. Big mistake.

Plus the Vietnamese have a pretty good track record in defending their homeland. I wouldn't have wanted to be in that war.

Did you watch the PBS documentary on the Vietnam War?

not yet

It's pretty good except for the hippie bullshit

ive heard enough family stories though

Talks with Vietnamese vets from both sides. Very interesting.

Yeah, I imagine. Dark times for SE Asia. That was when the Khmer Rouge shit was too. Very awful stuff

https://twitter.com/AB10427519/status/941702116443414529