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Originally Posted by donquixote99
Sometimes decisions are made for illogical reasons, eg, Dulles taking up the White Man's Burden after the French dropped it. Sometimes they are made for face-saving reasons, at each juncture where it was either escalate or admit the whole thing was a bad show, the Presidents and Generals went for escalate. And sometimes for money reasons; the MIC didn't actually care if the war made any sense or not, as a war.........
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as long as they were making money on it.
Finished it for you. And yeah, that is the problem with most wars these days.
I did some quick reading. Originally it was indo-china, a French colony. The Germans capturing France in WWII "destabilized" the French colony. This brought in the Japanese as well. Further, it allowed the colonies a little freedom, due to lack of political control by the French.
This is a highly paraphrased condensed version of what I read. I think I am fairly close though.
During this time, the countries of Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand became countries. The Vietnamese, in the north had declared there independence and the Soviet Union and China recognized them. This was a communist government. However, I also read it was brutal. Murdering something like 200,000 people for being "land owners". The combination of the red scare and these factors is what led Eisenhower and then ultimately the people of the US to support the south.
Does this sound correct?