Cold war

Hi you all,

I am German student and 24 years old. I am very interested into the Vietnam War. Personally, I think when discussing about the righteousness of the war, one has to consider the whole Cold War. While I think that the War itself was wrong because the US was supporting a Civil War party with a corrupt regime, the braoder context seems to have made the war inevitabel. The ideology not only of US but of the whole Western world was so anti-communistic and anti-Russian, that everybody suspected a spread of Russian values in Vietnam (which I think was not the case in the beginning but everybody thought so). The question now is, what would have resulted of a non intervention policy? I think the US would have lost all of its credibility in the rest of the Western world. Just imagine Germany's fears and lack of trust, when the US would not have done anything. I think it would have led to a strengthening of the Sovjet Union. Consequently, the intervention was probably the only choice the US. However, I think there must have been a way of pulling out earlier. To summarize my thought, I think what was wrong was the panic ridden ideology in those years. If anybody would like to discuss the war with me, especially Vietnam vets, feel free to contact me under CThomann76@yahoo.com Best regards from Greensboro, NC where I am studying right now.