GLASNOST
Gold Member
I could explain to you that there was no country called “South Vietnam” … that the alluded Gulf of Tonkin attack was a fabrication (i.e. it didn’t happen) and that it was the US that was illegally occupying Vietnam thus making any attack by the Vietnamese a matter of national security anyway … and that you are talking pure BS …. but it is abundantly clear that you are locked into voluntary ignorance mode so why would it be worthwhile to tell you anything?Why do people carp about U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.? The U.S. and South Vietnam were both members of SEATO (Southeast Asian Treaty Organization) so arguably the U.S. had an obligation to fight on behalf of South Vietnam from the beginning.. Not to mention the North Vietnamese attack on the U.S. destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin (unlike the later August 4, 1964, attack which never actually happened the earlier August 2, 1964 attack most certainly DID HAPPEN as it was admitted to by the North Vietnamese at the time).
By any possible stretch of explanations, U.S. military action against North Vietnam was clearly justified.