That is an even lamer excuse. "We attacked them because they are the filthy communists!" So what?! They are the communists, not you. If it works for them, doe

That is an even lamer excuse. "We attacked them because they are the filthy communists!" So what?! They are the communists, not you. If it works for them, does it need to work for you? If capitalism works for the US, does it have to work for Vietnam or any other country? I believe that the true reason for war was refusal of the US to hand over the gold to France and other countries which foolishly kept some of their gold in the US. Of course, the gold was either spent or confiscated by US. So, the US needed to fabricate a huge spending operation to justify the fiat expansion of the USD, leading ultimately to the creation of the petrodollar system which replaced the old gold system. And what better spending operation than a war? Even better, a war thousands of miles away from home, against far weaker enemy forces. Nevertheless, those forces prevailed in the end. But the true winner still, was the US. It had unshackled itself from the world's gold-backed financial system and ushered in a new era of dominance.