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After all this time. Its seams that nothing has changed. We are still fighting for the same thing.
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"...the Vietnam war was justified..."
I thought that only Chuck Norris could say that in 2020...
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After all this time. Its seams that nothing has changed. We are still fighting for the same thing.
I am just going to give you a thought experiment but I am not here to do politics. Just something for you to ponder. A wise person tries to look at both sides of an issue. They were protesting the Vietnam War when that tragedy happened. They have a right to protest.
It's been 15 years since the last original Rolling Stones album. It feels like it went by pretty fast.
It was 14 years between the end of the Vietnam war and the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the eventual dissolution of the USSR. The cold war came to an end. It's possible that without the Vietnam war the USSR would still be here and hundreds of millions of people would not have the freedoms that they have now. It's possible that a Third World War could have happened in that seemingly eternally polarized world.
So it's arguable that even though war is a terrible thing, the Vietnam war was justified. Between that conflict and Ronald Reagan rejuvenating the US Department of Defense in the 1980s - if those two things didn't happen chances are the Soviet Union would not have collapsed, and the world would be a much more miserable and dangerous place today.
This is just a thought experiment for your consideration.
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After all this time. Its seams that nothing has changed. We are still fighting for the same thing.
I am just going to give you a thought experiment but I am not here to do politics. Just something for you to ponder. A wise person tries to look at both sides of an issue. They were protesting the Vietnam War when that tragedy happened. They have a right to protest.
It's been 15 years since the last original Rolling Stones album. It feels like it went by pretty fast.
It was 14 years between the end of the Vietnam war and the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the eventual dissolution of the USSR. The cold war came to an end. It's possible that without the Vietnam war the USSR would still be here and hundreds of millions of people would not have the freedoms that they have now. It's possible that a Third World War could have happened in that seemingly eternally polarized world.
So it's arguable that even though war is a terrible thing, the Vietnam war was justified. Between that conflict and Ronald Reagan rejuvenating the US Department of Defense in the 1980s - if those two things didn't happen chances are the Soviet Union would not have collapsed, and the world would be a much more miserable and dangerous place today.
This is just a thought experiment for your consideration.
The United States' involvement in Vietnam had nothing to do with the end of the USSR. The U.S. misguidedly sought to limit the spread and influence of Communism by inserting itself into a regional conflict meant to unify a nation. You could make a better argument that when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan they got into their own "Vietnam" muck-and-mire type of war that drained their morale and resources, and eventually contributed to the USSR's collapse.
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So it's arguable that even though war is a terrible thing, the Vietnam war was justified.
Norris came to visit us in Iraq and although I am not a fan of his he was quite gracious and obviously had much respect for the armed forces. He signed autographs, posed for photos, and chatted for as long as the troops wanted him to. I believe he is also an US Air Force veteran. To answer the OP, I was six and a half years old at the time of Kent State but I do remember everyone freaking out. The invasion of Cambodia did it for my dad. That turned him against the war.Quote
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"...the Vietnam war was justified..."
I thought that only Chuck Norris could say that in 2020...
Norris had a brother that was killed in Vietnam.
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So it's arguable that even though war is a terrible thing, the Vietnam war was justified.
Another point of view might be :
depite killing 1 million of Vietnamese people eventually you lost against a bunch of people in rags with AK's?
That you didn't learn a single thing from this "counter-guerilla" war and you made exactly the same mistakes in Afghanistan (where you lost another war, again against a bunch of people in rags with AK's)?