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Originally Posted by Best Man
Take the effort to cite these facts or stick them back up ur ass where they came from, or both. Oh, and please elaborate on how Vietnam was 100% about economics, I'm very very interested in hearing this.
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The facts I posted are no big secret. Get an encyclopedia and a dictionary. If you need help looking up a specific part, let me know and I'll point you to an online link. But no, I'm not going to spend my time giving references for stuff that can easily be found.
As for Vietnam, North Vietnam was a communist democracy. I suppose one could twist the facts and say the US was fighting against democracy and trying to establish a dictatorship in Vietnam. The US was indeed responsible for cancelling elections in South Vietnam in 1956 -- obviously done because it was clear that Ho Chi Minh was going to defeat Diem in the elections and win by a landslide as he had done in the North.
But one look at US foreign policy in this time period shows they were never opposed to democracy in foreign countries, as long as they were capitalist. So I think a much better case can be made that the war was a fight against communism. If that meant that democracy would be defeated as well, then so be it. But the main focus was clearly the economics, not the politics.