The Vietnam War - The Issues

He says, “If we are driven from the field in Viet Nam, then no nation can ever again have the same confidence in American promise or in American protection” (Leone and Dudley 100). As John Kerry is quoted in Negotiating Differences, “Each day to facilitate the process by which the U. According to the 1954 Geneva Agreements the United States is not to interfere in North and South Vietnam, however the United States disregards those agreements and intervenes in the conflict. government does not want to admit that they made a mistake. As Daniel Greene asserts, “If the fictional South Vietnam failed to materialize or if effort to make it safe for anticommunism faltered, the Americans would have only themselves … to blame” (qtd. He continues to say, “we can not dishonor our word, or abandon our commitment, or leave those who believed us and trusted us to the terror and repression and murder that would follow” (Leone and Dubley 100). Documents and writings about the Vietnam War places numerous members of the American government, as well as personal of our military hard pressed to know fully why American involvement in Vietnam was or was not justified. forces in Vietnam or using even naval or air-support which is but the first step in that direction. The United States was involved in the Vietnamese conflict because American policymakers believed that if the entire country collapsed to Communist control, then Communism would spread throughout Southeast Asia like wildfire.