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The Vietnam War was based on the conflicts of ideas about how the government should function. The war was fought between the communist North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the U.S. and other nations of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. The U.S. yearned to serve as an example of a nation that’s powerful because of the kind of ideals it’s government is based on. The strategy of involving ourselves in a Vietnam’s civil conflicts, by supporting the anti-communistic half of it, was a puritanical attempt to establish the form of government we believed was the perfect fit for the whole world.
The US was confident that the communists would surrender by realizing that the anti-communistic military is equipped with powerful weaponry and explosive devices, powerful enough for the South to lose the war. For two years the Kennedy administration authorized the use of chemicals to destroy rice crops, which would lead the South to starvation. The U.S. air force sprayed about 12 million gallons of Agent Orange, which was a dioxin, toxic to the humanity and the environment, over Southeast Asia during our involvement. As of 2006, the Vietnamese government estimates that there are over 4,000,000 victims of dioxin poisoning in Vietnam. The U.S. used put every effort into attempting to intimidate the South.
Having capitalist and democratic as our form of government, the U.S. tried to lead Vietnam into realizing that the most equipped military belongs to the government based on our principles and, therefore, merely hoped that would render the South Vietnamese to take up our ideals. The Vietnamese’s persistence to our attacks soon rendered frustration in the U.S. government and the Johnson administration decided to escalate the war, by increasing the military attacks and the use of explosives. The U.S. could only hope that the South would surrender because the communists used guerilla tactics, which were preventing any massive attacks on the unequipped Vietnamese. Ho Chi Minh warned that if the Americans "want to make war for twenty years then we shall make war for twenty years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to afternoon tea."
The U.S. became more and more desperate on having the South surrender.
The goal of our involvement was to show the Vietnamese our city upon the hill of anti-communism. The puritanical ideas of converting a nations ideals to the ones of ours caused excess overconfidence and, therefore, reaffirmed our puritanical way of thinking. We built our confidence on the fact that we have never lost a war before and that it’s our duty to have them realize why. The anti-communism bound with our overconfidence formed the hill of Puritanism and our wish to show them our city was an act based on Puritanism. The desire to show them how high our hill is, was the subconscious goal of the American Puritans.
The U.S. believed that the whole world should take up our ideology for their own best and, therefore, involved in the Vietnam War. We justified our attempts to convert their ideals, by our Containment policy. And even though, there can’t be a victory against an idea, because it can’t be bombarded or shot like humans are, we believed that we could possibly get rid of it by force. The Vietnam war was a conflict between the freedom of thought and force. As much as limiting communism appeared to be the freedom of possessing that idea persisted to exist.
thank you.
The Vietnam War was based on the conflicts of ideas about how the government should function. The war was fought between the communist North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the U.S. and other nations of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. The U.S. yearned to serve as an example of a nation that’s powerful because of the kind of ideals it’s government is based on. The strategy of involving ourselves in a Vietnam’s civil conflicts, by supporting the anti-communistic half of it, was a puritanical attempt to establish the form of government we believed was the perfect fit for the whole world.
The US was confident that the communists would surrender by realizing that the anti-communistic military is equipped with powerful weaponry and explosive devices, powerful enough for the South to lose the war. For two years the Kennedy administration authorized the use of chemicals to destroy rice crops, which would lead the South to starvation. The U.S. air force sprayed about 12 million gallons of Agent Orange, which was a dioxin, toxic to the humanity and the environment, over Southeast Asia during our involvement. As of 2006, the Vietnamese government estimates that there are over 4,000,000 victims of dioxin poisoning in Vietnam. The U.S. used put every effort into attempting to intimidate the South.
Having capitalist and democratic as our form of government, the U.S. tried to lead Vietnam into realizing that the most equipped military belongs to the government based on our principles and, therefore, merely hoped that would render the South Vietnamese to take up our ideals. The Vietnamese’s persistence to our attacks soon rendered frustration in the U.S. government and the Johnson administration decided to escalate the war, by increasing the military attacks and the use of explosives. The U.S. could only hope that the South would surrender because the communists used guerilla tactics, which were preventing any massive attacks on the unequipped Vietnamese. Ho Chi Minh warned that if the Americans "want to make war for twenty years then we shall make war for twenty years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to afternoon tea."
The U.S. became more and more desperate on having the South surrender.
The goal of our involvement was to show the Vietnamese our city upon the hill of anti-communism. The puritanical ideas of converting a nations ideals to the ones of ours caused excess overconfidence and, therefore, reaffirmed our puritanical way of thinking. We built our confidence on the fact that we have never lost a war before and that it’s our duty to have them realize why. The anti-communism bound with our overconfidence formed the hill of Puritanism and our wish to show them our city was an act based on Puritanism. The desire to show them how high our hill is, was the subconscious goal of the American Puritans.
The U.S. believed that the whole world should take up our ideology for their own best and, therefore, involved in the Vietnam War. We justified our attempts to convert their ideals, by our Containment policy. And even though, there can’t be a victory against an idea, because it can’t be bombarded or shot like humans are, we believed that we could possibly get rid of it by force. The Vietnam war was a conflict between the freedom of thought and force. As much as limiting communism appeared to be the freedom of possessing that idea persisted to exist.