the world's history, with technology that far exceeds all other
countries and made mince meat of several other and larger countries in
wars before this? Well I sure can't believe it and frankly it makes me
mad. I have some ideas of why it went so badly over there and that is
what I want to talk about in this article.
The Vietnam War was a sort of humanitarian assistance program that
slowly drew us int...
How is it that we lost the Vietnam War? We the most powerful military in
the world's history, with technology that far exceeds all other
countries and made mince meat of several other and larger countries in
wars before this? Well I sure can't believe it and frankly it makes me
mad. I have some ideas of why it went so badly over there and that is
what I want to talk about in this article.
The Vietnam War was a sort of humanitarian assistance program that
slowly drew us into a war that we weren't expecting. We were trying to
help a fledgling democracy and were actually fighting the communist
regimes and attitudes of the day. We in effect were fighting the
beginning of the Cold War. So there was more at stake than the country
that we were fighting for and that is what got us into trouble. We
should have simply went after the real enemies from the start.
Anyway we also went in without a clear objective. We wanted to do a good
job while not sacrificing life. This went on to a fault and ended up
costing a lot more life than it should have. You see we as a country
back home was not real into the conflict as a rule and didn't really
understand what it would take to do the job right. This was the fault of
our government entirely. Only when the troops got into it were they able
to see what it was all about. They were persuaded that the Vietnam War
was worth the loss of life when considering the championing of life and
liberty but the public in America who were very shielded and lied to had
a harder time. This also coincided with a rebellion of the young people
against the cultural values that had gone before them of hard work,
discipline, and responsibility for something other than our own
individuality.
So it was the military fighting both the enemy in the Vietnam War and
also their own home country's citizens who were sticking their nose
where it didn't belong and not understanding the investment of life for
liberty. I don't know about you but I have a tremendous respect for
those who went to do a job that was very worth it to champion liberty
and democracy and were dying for it all the while their own people were
against them too. It makes me angry and I worry that this conflict in
Iraq presently is going the exact same direction.
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