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> It made me think how so few of us in each country really wanted to fight these wars. Don't make a false equivalence. The Vietnamese were occupied by foreigne
by einpoklum 4y ago
> It made me think how so few of us in each country really wanted to fight these wars.
Don't make a false equivalence. The Vietnamese were occupied by foreigners and did indeed - on the whole - want to struggle and fight for liberation from the US. As for people in the US - they were sent off to fight for geopolitical advantages of the ruling elite, for rubber supply security etc.
- Stratoscope 4y agoThank you for the thoughtful comment. I certainly didn't mean to make a false equivalence, only to mention that most people in either land didn't want this war. Of course as you point out, once forced into it, the Vietnamese people really had little choice but to defend their home. It reminds me a bit of another war going on right now.