Message from @Dinosorcerer
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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
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
Oh no not the Stuch!
A bugman to the nth degree
"It can't be real socialism if it's racist, guys"