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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
When the British and the Americans supported the French
No, we didn't start the war between the Viet Minh and the so-called Republic of Vietnam. We did, however, side with "our" bloody dictator against "their" bloody dictator for the sole reason that "their" guy was a Godless Communist, and 58,000 of our boys died in what was essentially a civil war. The cause was wrong, our involvement was wrong, and as I've said before we should never have been there in the first place. Our government lied to us and sent us there for reasons most of us still don't understand, and I'm guessing they didn't either.
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No argument Steve but then again hindsight is always 20-20. In the late 50's when we first started sending troops over there Communism was something that had to be fought. You're right that Vietnam was essentially a civil war but it was one that
both sides had outside support. The Russians and Chinese weren't going to stop supporting Ho Chi Minh if we had refused to support Diem.