Michael Ruan
Blog 5 - Section A03
In the reading
from “Saigon to Baghdad,” the author talks about the U.S. intervention and
involvement in Vietnam and compared it to the present day war on terror located
in Iraq. The Vietnam War could be avoided but American government interest in
politics and economics had them concerning over their diplomatic rules of being
a communist state. Many of my friends’ families were refugees from the Vietnam
War, many went to camps and it took at most two years until they were able to
immigrate to the states. Many stories were told about how many did not even
make it out the camps and some even die in the seas trying to escape to nearby
counties like Malaysia. The Vietnam War was a perfect example in how U.S
involvement had greatly affected both Vietnamese and Americans negatively and
the loss of this war had a lot of people rethinking if our American government
had did the right thing. We relate that to the current issue in Iraq, many
deemed this war was necessary to punish the ones responsible for 9/11 and some
may argue there might be alternatives.
Q: Why does the American government has such negative hatred towards a communist party, does it really threaten their democracy?
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