American Participation In The Vietnam War Essay

No America shouldn’t have intervened in the Vietnam war. When America intervened in the Vietnam war they had made a very big decision. America chose to intervene in gruesome unwinnable war, but many reasons not to intervene also followed and these are the reasons why.

To begin, the Vietnam war shouldn’t have happened in the first place because America did not have any business being there. America chose to go and start a war with Vietnam to “stop communism,” as said by Dwight Eisenhower. That is what made America pursue the goal of stopping communism, but America did not keep in mind the risks that could occur with going to war with Vietnam.

A consequence such as the death toll. at the end of the war, over 58,000 Americans were killed in action or by other reasons: traps, gun fire, or disease. Not only did the soldiers’ deaths affect the army, but they also affected their families. These deaths had a

To be exact 173 billion dollars were used for the war and if that's equivalent to 770 billion dollars in 2003 and this in total. If you looked at just the money used for weapons, bullets, and bombs would be somewhere around 150 billion dollars which could have had a better use in America. Such as development in medicine, technology, and many other things. Money was used not an effective way it was used very poorly. The money America used in that pointless war could have benefited America in millions of ways.

To rebuttal the argument one could say America made a good decision to intervene in the Vietnam war. Some of the reasons could be that America’s military tactics improved, they learned more about the country and their way of warfare. America didn't totally lose the war either sites say that “America won and lost the war” and this is because “the military won but the politicians lost” so that how the war could’ve helped America and why America