rightwinger
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Vietnam was a Civil War that we turned into a Cold War.
Rather than allow Vietnam to work out its own conflict, we jumped in after France left and treated it like a colonial entity that answers to a foreign power.
The horror stories of what would happen if Communism took hold did not come to be true. The real horror was 20 years of war that killed millions and fractured America’s trust in their government.
Today, Vietnam is a stable country and active trading partner with the west. The economy is better than it was under colonial rule and under corrupt S Vietnamese control.
Rather than allow Vietnam to work out its own conflict, we jumped in after France left and treated it like a colonial entity that answers to a foreign power.
The horror stories of what would happen if Communism took hold did not come to be true. The real horror was 20 years of war that killed millions and fractured America’s trust in their government.
Today, Vietnam is a stable country and active trading partner with the west. The economy is better than it was under colonial rule and under corrupt S Vietnamese control.