Since during the Vietnam War there has been debate on whether the United States was right to become involved in the conflict. Some say that we were wrong to become involved in what was an internal conflict among the people of Vietnam. Others feel that we followed the natural course and that involvement was not only wrong, but also justified. Which view is right? Should we have been in Vietnam or not? World War II …
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…of Vietnam. We were trying to prove that we could stop Communism. However, because of some policy mistakes, including underestimating the Vietcong and overestimating the forces of Saigon, we failed. In the end we did not contain communism, as Saigon fell after we left. We tried to control another part of the world that we knew little to nothing about. We were so confident that we never really stopped to thing about if we should.