Vietnam
...ed. More voices became heard and the American churches became involved, and began to challenge the American presence in Vietnam. Although the United States was anti-communist they should have realized that even if they got involved and helped South Vietnam, the country was too weak that and once the troops pulled out communist rule would take over regardless. There are many reasons as to why Vietnam was a bad decision. The terrain was unknown to the US troops, they were unable to effectively get anything done. So many soldiers lost their lives in the Vietnam jungle because they had no experience in that type of terrain, and the Viet Cong had a fair advantage. General Matthew Ridgeway a highly respected American commander of the United Nations Forces in Korea warned the United States would suffer disaster if they became committed to defending a fledging state in Asia. He also believed that there would be too many logistical difficulties in trying to supply ground forces so far from the American mainland. Nor were American troops trained for the kind of warfare that they were likely to encounter in Vietnam (Warren). Although the United States soldiers were proud to serve their country they understood more than the Government because majority of them had been in actual warfare rather than just talk about it, and read books and novels that tell of the gruesome battles that take place. Men linked directly to the government later on realized that the war was a lost cause and was one of the worst decisions that the United States had made in regards to going to war. For fourteen years the United States sent troops and left troops in an unknown country trying to fight off a powerful group of communist that stretched from China down to North Vietnam. For fourteen years thousands of soldiers died for a lost cause because the United States was to stubborn to realize that what they had gotten into would lead to disaster for both the United States and for South Vietnam. So many soldiers were injured, maimed and killed for nothing and were not or have not been honored for their bravery and loyalty to the United States and to the war efforts only because they had been gone so long and the war had not been won. In all the while the government was warned against sending troops to Vietnam by their very own military leaders, and they were being picketed by anti-war demonstrators. When France left the Vietnam war front the Unites States had no idea that they had casts themselves in the unenviable role of France’s replacement, another foreign invading force on Vietnamese soil (Warren). Before the United States went in to Vietnam France had been fighting the war against communist rule in South Vietnam trying to prevent it from spreading and taking over, but they came to realize that the war effort was not showing any type of effect and chasing communist rulers out of the country. The United States then went in believing that they would be fighting along side France only to have them leave the United States in the heat of the battle by themselves. Still the United States felt they should stay and stick it out, try to fight off the communist themselves in the unknown world of Vietnam. To this day no one really understands why the United States felt that they should keep communist rule from spreading to South Vietnam. When Russia had been taken over by communist rule the United states did not jump to the occasion. When communist rule took over Germany, the Uni...