To think that we started this war to help an ally (France) maintain their colonial power over people who wanted to be free, and then stayed in it because it would look bad, is horrific. Nixon even interfered with peace talks before he was elected to make sure he’d have a better chance of being elected, and that fact was seen as so damaging that those in power decided to keep it the American people in the dark. A presidential candidate interfered with the peace process to get elected and the American people weren’t even told about it.
And then the massacres. So much humanity was lost. Not just in the massacres but in the battles for a war that didn’t need to be fought.
The Vietnam war is such a dark part of human history, and yet we barely talk about it. Or when we do, many people to this day believe the government lines they were being fed at the time of the war. That this was necessary, etc.
And now we have a president that threatens war and people support him in it. Hell Obama pushed war too and advanced many war efforts.
I wish we could stop all this killing. I mean - we could. I wish we would.