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Originally Posted by August
Say what you want about my country but I still would rather live here than anywhere else.
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Thats cool, but can I ask, have you been anywhere else much?
I know home is home, im just asking.
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Vietnam was as well ultimatly, we tried to help the French, and they ran away and left us with a bucket of feces that killed 60,000 men, and had many more brave survivors spit on by people like Jane Fonda.
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Nope you got involved in Vietnam in a bid to contain the spread of Communism in south east asia, why would the US help the French re-establish their pre-WW2 empire, when at the time the U.S was strongly against British and European colonialism?
Ho Chi Mihn was a communist who was about to establish a Soviet backed Regime in Vietnam (after the French Defeat),
Vietnams neighbours - Laos, Cambodia and Thailand had weak goverments that could easily follow suit (The Domino Theory) America saw Communism as a threat, so a new Soviet block in south east asia was the last thing it wanted.
Simples
