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To add to the above, as much as some people want to mock America's involvement in Vietnam, one must note that The Domino Theory (used to justify that involvemen
by rudolfwinestock 5y ago
To add to the above, as much as some people want to mock America's involvement in Vietnam, one must note that The Domino Theory (used to justify that involvement) came true.
Granted, the worst case scenario did not happen (Australia was spared communist takeover), but what actually happened was horrific, nonetheless. Laos and Cambodia fell to communism, in part thanks to communist forces from Vietnam.
And anyone who pulls the line of "independence from foreign domination" should have a talk with the grey hairs in your local Vietnamese neighborhood, here, in the States. They'll let you know how much people in South Vietnam wanted nothing to do with the tyrannical regime in the North.
Furthermore, one cannot disparage South Vietnam as a puppet regime without also disparaging South Korea, Taiwan, or West Germany for that matter.
- nguyenkien 5y agoTell your neighbors come and talk with people from Mỹ Lai
- ipaddr 5y agoThere was a class divide with the educated in the south going through a french system asking for western support. I could see how different neighbourhoods would have different opinions. The richer more middle class or higher the more you wanted things to stay the same.
- rudolfwinestock 5y agoThose responsible for what happened there received due process of law and were punished. Communists, on the other hand, either suppress or celebrate their own atrocities.
- thereare5lights 5y ago> Those responsible for what happened there received due process of law and were punished. LOL The ONLY person that received ANY punishment was Calley, and he was sentenced to life only to serve three years of house arrest. "were punished" is a joke.
- trasz 5y agoErm, that’s a lie. US is pretty good at protecting its war criminals, and it was quite visible in this case, where only a single one of the perpetrators has been punished, and the punishment was hilariously low (iirc just a few years of prison).
- thereare5lights 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%E1%BB%B9_Lai_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%E1%BB%B9_Lai_massacre That's just one of them that we have evidence of. We know this was not a one off event. Anyone who pulls the line of "Domino Theory" and "America was just fighting communism" must note all the war crimes that the US committed and was never held responsible for.
- temp8964 5y agoThat part is true, but communists killed millions more. There is no perfect history to love, sad ?
- thereare5lights 5y agoThe justification of America's involvement and the lionization of it does not rest upon "but communists killed millions more."
- temp8964 5y agoOK. So just let the communists kill millions more, or just call God to send the perfect army.