Our cause was noble, even if our choices sometimes weren't. But NVA was amoral tyranny. No serious discussion of the war can ignore that.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @jbview
Since the governments in South Vietnam USA was defending were also tyrannies, hard to see the morality of the cause.
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It does not surprise me that Communist enslavement of the South would not trouble your conscience one whit.
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It doesn't surprise me that killing hundreds of thousands of people to keep a market open doesn't bother your conscience.
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“Keep a market open?” Communism killed tens of millions. That’s what we were trying to stop from happening elsewhere.
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Replying to @EIowaGuy @mbzAppleman and
One cannot embrace North Vietnam if one cannot defend the empowerment of their ideological confreres the Khmer Rouge.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @EIowaGuy and
I don't see the need to embrace any of those regimes. We had no business going to war to defend France's empire, nor to acquire it
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Replying to @lawnerdbarak @EIowaGuy and
The French empire was dead after 1954. Try harder.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @EIowaGuy and
Baseball Crank: what you are writing shows profound ignorance of history. USA went into Indochina to help prop up French (& then took over).
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So, in your view, the period from 1954 to 1965 involved neither the passage of time nor a significant escalation of the effort?
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Sure, because the French pulled out, the USA took over their role. Hence escalation.
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Five years after they left, we had less than a thousand men there & no plan or prospect of restoring a colony. Your argument is nonsense.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @HeerJeet and
The one thing I know: The reasons for US involvement in VN were a damn sight more complicated than any Twitter string can possibly address.
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