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VietNam really didnt have alot of so-called free trade with the U.S. and would have amounted to a fruit stand on a lonely highway in each state.
To understand the advancement of Communism you have to look at the examples given at the Time. The Soviet Union.
If you want to know more about that, skip the lessons from school and ask someone who actually was an adult in Russia at that time.
As for loosing the war, we didn't from a soldiers stand point. Our military could have been in and out of there had it been given proper directives from the top and support from its citizens.
One thing you may learn someday is that we had our own Communist insurgency in the United States and still lives in our politics today.
President Reagen ripped the heart and support from it and thats why we have such bitter politicians in todays politics.
They lost their hidden support and foundation.
Yes indeed Vietnam is beginning to recover economically but are you sure that they are socially stable?
Money? I don't think so..........
Or go to Cambodia, where Marxism's monument (reminiscent of Stalin's Ukraine in the 1930's) was millions of dead civilians, liberated not only from "imperialist repression," but from life itself, en masse.
Communism is really that bad, and the feared "domino theory" was correct. Frankly, the world is lucky that more nations didn't collapse to the Communists after Vietnam. The war wasn't bad, it was handled by idiots in the White House. Unfortunately, the Johnson administration fouled up the war (through micro-management) to the point where Nixon had no choice but to retreat in the face of public frustration and a burgeoning Communist Front on college campuses.
Was the US spotless? No, but dare to compare apples to apples...the Hmong, South Vietnamese, and Cambodean bodies vs. the dead innocents (killed by the US) in Vietnam. Come up with your own opinion, not some textbook's or some professor's. Did we start the war? No. We merely kept the North Vietnamese from raping the South for a decade. If one is to accurately assess the Vietnam war, one must take the time to analyze the whole thing, not just one era of it, and certainly not just the typical leftist rewritten history of the war.
