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This 5 page report discusses issues involved in the Vietnam war that made it unusually difficult to fight. The writer also illustrates how movies about the Vietnam 'experience' have colored Americans' view of the war. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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relatively minor and only a fragment of the worldwide military assistance offered by the U.S. Obviously, over the years it was destined to grow in size and complexity until it
overshadowed other commitments and became a test of, depending who one asks, American resolve, stubbornness, or stupidity. Long before the United States was deeply consumed
by the war, the Vietnamese "conflict" had any illusion of being a colonial and had evolved into a struggle for survival of a small nation in the pattern of what
the Communists referred to as of national liberation. It was complicated by similar but less well-organized Communist aggression against the neighboring countries of Laos and Cambodia, by an ideological split
between the Chinese and the Soviets in the Communist bloc, and by a possibility that as a testing ground between Communists and non-Communists it might escalate into much more of
circumstance that would force the world powers into direct conflict. Convinced that the majority of the Vietnamese people desperately longed for freedom from totalitarian
Communism and that by the example of successful resistance to Communism in other Asian nations peoples would be encouraged to resist Communism, the United States under four successive presidents -Eisenhower,
Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon - worked to make the institutions of a "free society" available to that half of the nation to which circumstances afforded access. Unique Problems
According to Hare, Joynt, and Warnke in Freedman (1994), among the first obstacles faced in the fighting the war in Vietnam was the inevitable stigma attached
to a government originally sponsored by a colonial power. Added to that was the problem of convincing a people exploited by foreigners through much of their history that the
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