“The US didn’t give a crap about Indochina, it only wanted to keep France in the fold.”
That would explain the 60K dead over the next years as we fought there. There is no doubt we pushed the French to fight that war; while they wanted Indochina, they had no interest in fighting to keep it.
The “US pilots” weren’t in the US military; one was so fat he couldn’t get the stick all the way back to take off (his body was recovered in the last ten years).
No, but nice try — the policy of the US changed; the US policy in the 1950s was devolution of the old colonial empires, but France was believed to be critical to European security. Apparently to you fat guys are neither pilots nor American.