"Were America's policies and actions (1945-1975) toward Vietnam in the best interests of the American people?"

Please explain what you think and why. Thank you! =)
"Were America's policies and actions (1945-1975) toward Vietnam in the best interests of the American people?"
No, of course not.


The government flat out lied to the American people during Vietnam, falsifying the reasons for entering and using war for economic gain under the guise of "protecting democracy"





We sent thousands of young man in to a needless war (many of those men were uneducated and poor compared with their counterparts who remained at home) and they fought an enemy that was an insurgency rather than a professional army.





The war in Vietnam divided the country and caused the American people to lose faith in their government--a faith that, to this day, has not been restored
"Were America's policies and actions (1945-1975) toward Vietnam in the best interests of the American people?"
We certainly had no great debt to the French after the war, and we'd have done better to encourage self-determination and self-government there as well as elsewhere. That is what Ho expected, and what he had every right to expect.


In greater terms, it would have been more intelligent to "fight" communism by refusing to fight in such circumstances. Since communism couldn't be sustained without communist troops, the entire domino theory was a bit silly and would not have stood had its proponents really believed that communism is a failed system, but they always seem to have looked at it simply as temporarily bad for business.