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In five pages this paper examines how the United States became involved in Vietnam, how U.S. policymakers failed to understand Vietnam, considers the overall costs of the war, and the parallels that exist between the conflicts in Vietnam and Iraq. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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geographical lines being drawn in Korea, Germany, and if Ho Chi Minh and his forces had their way, Vietnam would fall under Communist control. After the 1954 Geneva ceasefire
agreement, the North and South were territorially subdivided with Ho Chi Minh leading the North and Ngo Dinh Diem presiding in the South. President Dwight Eisenhower worried that escalating
regional tensions would result in a northern takeover of South Vietnam. His successor, John F. Kennedy, shared a similar fear and acquiesced to Diems request for a token troop
commitment of 10,000 in the fall of 1963. With Diems murder on November 1, 1963 and President Kennedys three weeks later, in increasingly complicated situation in Vietnam became Lyndon
B. Johnsons problem. Johnson did not want the war in Southeast Asia to derail his ambitious Great Society domestic agenda, but he was not about to allow the
Communists to take control of South Vietnam because of the international perception that the U.S. was losing the Cold War that would invariably result. For him, winning was the
only acceptable outcome. Walter H. Capps observed in his text The Unfinished War: Vietnam and the American Conscience, "If the United States had not invested the situation in
Vietnam with rivalry with Communist powers, the tragedy might have been avoided. But since it viewed the war as a fundamental conflict between the worlds two great superpowers, the United
States eventually felt the responsibility to commit its forces" (64). Johnson dramatically escalated the U.S. troop involvement in the region and vigorously "rejected suggestions that taxes be raised to
pay for these large increases in expenditures" (Moise 73). He recklessly decided "to pursue all his goals at once rather than setting priorities," but because he believed he would
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