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Offline theking

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..during Nam:

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How Arrogance and Ignorance Doomed the U.S. in Vietnam

In 1965, the United States was widely regarded as the most powerful and prosperous nation on earth. The country was in the forefront of expanding the boundaries of democracy and free institutions abroad. Its military power was the chief bulwark against communist expansionism in Europe and Asia in the ongoing Cold War. The U.S. economy, along with Americans’ increasingly consumer-driven way of life, was the envy of much of the rest of the world. The American people, it’s fair to say, were by and large an optimistic and confident bunch. Their republic, almost 200 years old, had been tested in the annealing fires of a civil war, two world wars, a devastating depression, and most recently, by the assassination of a beloved president and war hero, John F. Kennedy.

By almost any measure, the United States appeared to be at the forefront of history. Yet beneath all the optimism and prosperity, there were unmistakable signs of racial and social turbulence, and even revolutionary change. The most visible and gripping struggle concerned Black Americans’ effort to obtain voting rights, equal justice under law, and access to the American dream. But young middle-class whites were becoming alienated and distrustful of “the establishment,” and women and gay people were beginning to question their secondary status in a supposedly open society.

As 1965 began, President Lyndon Johnson and his chief advisers were increasingly preoccupied with a foreign policy crisis in a relatively small and obscure Southeast Asian nation called Vietnam. Few Americans could have found Vietnam on a world map in early 1965, but Washington had committed itself a decade earlier to preventing a powerful communist insurgency in South Vietnam from crushing the beleaguered pro-American administration in Saigon and uniting South Vietnam with North Vietnam under a single communist government.

By February 1965, Johnson had decided the only way to preserve South Vietnam’s independence was to commit United States ground forces to the fight against the insurgency in the South, and to launch a bombing campaign against the North Vietnamese, who both supported and directed that insurgency. The first Marines waded ashore on March 8 on Red Beach in Danang; the Army arrived in strength a couple of months later, along with a vast number of contractors, engineers, and civilian construction companies to transform Vietnam’s underdeveloped infrastructure and prepare the country for a major American war. Airfields, all-weather roads, six major ports, and hundreds of bases and installations seemed to appear overnight.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-arrogance-and-ignorance-doomed-the-us-in-vietnam



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Without nam, the USA would be so different

This is my speculation:
The flips and chinese who helped to build the railroads would still be living in their small groups like a china town and without expansion.  All these souteast asian communities and what not in the USA would not exist. 

The only southeast asian in America are those who are on a business trip or foreign exchange student programs but they too must go home after visa expires.  There will not be enough of us to build any infrastructure s here in the USA. 

The whites will still fight with the Blacks for equal rights and the blacks will hold jobs that us Asians are having right now.  Maybe by them holding jobs, they can at least equal out the playing fields with the white man. 

South east asia will flourished like hong kong with sky scrapers all over the place and casinos built like macau.  If our motherland was all that great, we don't need to go anywhere else. 

There will probably not be any immigration act unless them mexicans are flooding on over and the immigration act is specifically for them.  Remember that any immigration act for us Southeast asians, other nations can also piggy back it as well.  They don't thank us though.  They never do. 

We wouldn't be here in America and I'll still be a farmer but with a wife and kids and good old country style living.  Maybe uneducated and not knowing where the United State is on the map.  I mean why would I even want to know about the America when life in our mainland is better?   O0



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Hmong would've taken over Laos and make Laotians be our immigrants. Remember, FRANCE WAS STILL AROUND!

France chose us because we can fight. France wants us to have a country because they dug up the truth about Laos and their constitution.

France discriminate Laos because of how much of a Stone Age they are. They only know how to make stone pots while we are in the Middle Ages with early gunpowder. Hmong are stupid because of the oppression from the Chinese people. If we said yes to France, make it happen.

i thought you say the FRANCE WON'T AROUND

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That's later during WII.

their ass got own during w2 by the japanese
they came back to take their colonial after ww2
the vietcong kick their ass

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