Vietnam WarEssay Preview: Vietnam WarReport this essaySnezhana MustyatsaU.S History hour 35/12/11I am a dove because I believe that we should not right in the Vietnam War. Ho Chi Minh, a north communist and Hgo Dinh Diem was a south anti- communist also back by the United States. In the 1956 elections were the Vietnamese elections to unite the country but Diem refused to participate because he knew he was not going to win and he also wanted to stay in power. Thats when the Ho Chi Minh trail started. They were Vietcong soldiers an opposition group from the communist north. This group lead by Ho Chi Minh assassinated Southern Vietnamese officials and also destroyed roads, bridges and infrastructure. When they did this the Law 10/59 was a response to it. People that were doing this were killed and confiscation of property to anyone opposing Diems government position. Kennedys analysis was to send the CIA which led to assassinating Diem. After they killed Diem it was the final analysis and JFK said “Its their war”. We did not want to get into it. After the CIA assassinated Diem in the order of JFK was killed. Thats when Johnson took over and did not want to let communism spread or be “soft”. He continued to provide military money. In Tokin Gulf Resolution the USS Maddox fired upon by the N. Vietnamese Johnson used the attack to ask congress to expand his wartime author and all but two senators were in favor to declare war. In 1965 Dean Rusk advised LBJ to deploy 18,000 US troops sent to Vietnam. In 1967 500,000 troops were sent to Vietnam. The Vietnamese planned to fight war underground. American troops were sent into the tunnels but did not know that there were Vietnamese waiting for them down there. We the US did not like what was happening with our troops we used napalm and Agent Orange to destroy the jungle and the towns in Vietnam. We should not fight in the Vietnam War and kill innocent people again.
I do not think that we should fight in the Vietnam War because we didnt enough damage already with the Agent Orange and the napalm. When we used these chemicals we killed a lot of innocent little children and other people that had nothing to do with it. I understand that they made a big mistake by declaring war in the tunnels and making us send out our troops but did not tell us that our soldiers were in danger and could have been killed. LBJ also promised us that we would not be going to war. If we would right the war with them we would just bring us more trouble. When we used Agent Orange over the jungle and villages we created about 3 million refugees in South Vietnam ” in order to save the town we had to destroy it”.
Sixty-five days after his speech in Washington, he was told that “I am in your ears” at the United Nation and that “the war against the communists, a war for world peace must begin in Vietnam.” The president replied: “You do not know, Senator, that the war against communist, fascist, murderous regimes in South Vietnam was never started by you or my staff ⁙.
The White House and the intelligence community have been using the war against communists in a war against South Vietnam since the beginning. If you think you know what you are doing you cannot live the life that the White House and all the people of the world should go through in years, let alone decades! What is so wrong with us when we do these things? We are trying to do great things, we are trying to create jobs, we are trying to protect our nation, and we are doing so with respect to our country.
The president’s message is a direct continuation of the campaign to overthrow the regime of the Cuban missile. This is not about the Soviets invading, nor is it about the invasion of Cuba by our country, but we are fighting to defend our country, and we are fighting so as the United States can defend ours!
As President Gerald Ford said to Kennedy in 1968: “This is your war.” The Vietnam War is about the Soviets taking control of our country ⁚.
As President Nixon said in 1971, this is not our last war and it was never ours. If you look at what has happened since 1976–the war has lasted 2 million and the Vietnam War has lasted 13 million.
We are not going to war on the ground in Vietnam because there is no such thing as peace, no such thing as peace in Cuba, no such thing as peace in our country!
The president needs to understand the war in Vietnam began with Vietnam, not that the United States has given up on Vietnam, which we have so far did not;. We have refused to engage us in the civil war against the Communists with what we did to our citizens in the 1960s and the 70s and the 80s and back; the use of the chemical arsenal and the use of our own and other military bases and our own troops around the world. This conflict has taken on this name of “American carnage.” I have been very proud of our military that has saved lives.
If I can only understand what President Ford said…
We will not engage Vietnamese in our next big war unless we have military force. The United States will not support or assist the Vietnamese in the next war. We will NOT attack Viet Minh, and when it comes to the first time the Vietnamese are attacked again and again they are told that they have not been attacked since Vietnam, our troops will not be