what are your views Mister
uh i think Vietnam war
was justified
but it was carried out badly
unfortunately politician got a hold of it
and it was a military victory but it was uh
i'd say uh a political defeat
what what what do you think about of world i mean the Vietnam War
well i'm just not really still not really sure why the war started
uh there was a conflict with the Vietnamese had conflict with the French i i know that and they've been in a war like state for seems like most of
the time that their countries been prospering so they're just award tarnation
no uh from what i remember was uh
the French
had a Vietnam as a colony
uh-huh
and then after the war World War II
uh
Vietnam wanted to become independent of of France
uh-huh
so they started an up rising and that was the French
and oh Chinese War
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and and uh basically
Vietnamese Vietnamese where beating the French so we took over because we had our containment policy
and uh the north side of Vietnam
went to Russia for military aid
and so we didn't want
so we didn't want Vietnam become communist
so that's why we started supporting the South Vietnamese Vietnamese that's how the war started
does oil come into the equation all of that is there oil in that area see oil is a a motivating factor for most of the
uh
altercations that go on in the world
but it's not necessarily oil i i i know you are talking about like uh natural resources but i don't think they had that much of a natural
exactly
to much natural resource it's just like i said our we had a containment policy and if we didn't help the South Vietnamese
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the North Vietnamese would have definitely won and then our views in those days they would have become communist or pinko
um-hum
so we didn't want that so we got into the war
what about what do you think about strategic location just as
if you think about it
Russia has Cuba which is an island outside the United States and United States has Japan that's right out side of Cuba it it does Vietnam have a any strategic location
uh-huh
uh
actually i i i really haven't considered that much
about a strategic location
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hum uh
other than it being another country falling to the
to pinkos or the communist
no not to much real strategic
location
it's just
uh for for Russia to continue it has to expand if it doesn't expand it'll collapse
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so by doing our containment policy
we're defeating
Russia
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i don't know if uh if that containment policy was was right or the best
uh-huh
but
that was our our little view then
i sort of believe that the Vietnam because of the Vietnam war and the
the way that the United States exited from it that that has brought on other scrimmages and i i thinks that that's
some what related
to the
Gulf War because
it makes the American people keep safe face
uh
i i i agree partial with you the Vietnam War made us loose
loose faith uh politically
and and that and and to the fact that the American public
can't stomach war or high causality
so we aren't really steadfast in that regard but military we unquestionably you know unquestionably quick ass in Vietnam
um-hum
uh
it might have had
probably did have some repercussions repercussions towards now you know people do
the enemy does know if the America takes high causality it will leave
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just like in uh
uh that uh a car bombing or three hundred marines were killed and we just got the hell out
from
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um-hum is this is this something in your
in your military in your military training that that uh suggests that that is a um procedure of the
of the American way of war
uh what what is uh low causality or high causalities
right is there you know like there
