I haven't done one of this political Blogs in a while, and seeing as how I did my history test the other day and felt I answered the essay question quite well, I'mma post my answer on here for all to read and comment on. Alright? Here we go!

Question: To what extent did U.S. involvement in Vietnam reflect lessons learned in other 20th century wars (including the Cold War)?

Answer:
There were many things about the U.S. involvement in Vietnam that reflected lessons learned in other twentieth-century wars. There was mostly one thing that reflected lessons learned in other twentieth-century wars. I will discuss that main thing in a following paragraph. In the following paragraphs of the essay, I shall discuss how U.S. involvement in Vietnam reflected lessons learned in other twentieth-century wars.

I believe the Cold War was the only major twentieth-century war that was actually any use at all to world relations. In the Vietnam War, we pulled out of battle too quickly and left behind a lot of POWs. When we pulled out of the war, we were pretty much giving up and going back home with our tail tucked between our legs. All those men who died over there in Vietnam died in vain because our President didn’t want to stick it out over there. We lost the war, many lives, and didn’t solve a single thing.

We pretty much did the same thing in Korea and Desert Storm. In Korea, the South Koreans asked us to help, so we tried to. We went over to Korea to help the South Koreans defeat the North Koreans, but it never happened. We really didn’t improve international relationships with Korea with that war, either. North Korea eventually overcame South Korea after we pulled out of the war and all of our fighting was for not.

In Desert Storm, yet again, we gave up before our business was finished. We did not lose the war but we didn’t finish our business of why we were originally fighting. That is partly why we’re fighting against Iraq right now. Just like Vietnam and just like Korea, we pulled out too early and before our business was finished. Our twentieth-century wars seem rather repetitive that way.

So in closing, I feel that Vietnam did indeed reflect many of our other twentieth-century wars in the respect that I feel we pulled out of the fight too quickly. It was as if we were throwing in the towel and saying “We give up!” I feel that in all of these wars, many men and women undeservingly died in vain. We did not finish our business in many of these wars and most didn’t do anything to help international relations. If anything, they made them worse.

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