[Vaquero]

took an honorable action to protect a SEATO ally from unwanted communist takeover and turned it into a fiasco.

the reason for the Vietnam war bad name, can be linked directly to MacNamara, micromanaging a war and not fighting it as a war. He and LBJ were despicable.....

[GraceG]

People forget that Vietnam was once called “French-Indo-China” and that the Vietnam war was basically us cleaning up the French’s mess.

Of course Had Truman not stopped MacArthur in a purely politically motivated move after WWII. We might have gone into China, kicked some Commie butt, prevented the Korean War, and possibly even prevented the Vietnam war as well.

I Blame the French and Harry Truman for Vietnam.