And also American decision makers being incapable of not misunderstanding Communism and various Communist parties/regimes. They made the mistake in Korea and th

And also American decision makers being incapable of not misunderstanding Communism and various Communist parties/regimes. They made the mistake in Korea and then repeated it shortly after in Vietnam, of just limping everyone together - they're red, they're part of the same evil empire and work as one! How such dumbness ever made it to the White House and Pentagon is beyond me (on the other hand, the Pentagon also thought Japanese would make bad fighter pilots due to the shape of their eyes before WW2 which was just 20 years earlier, so is it really surprising?). The Vietminh were fought by the Americans because of the dumb Domino Theory and very dumb idea that Vietnam will become a Chinese and Soviet puppet. Neither of those things were really true or even realistic.