Vietnam War & the Wars Today

When I think of the US in the Vietnam war, it brings to mind the reasons for being there in the first place. We began sending troops in the 1960s to assist South Vietnam from being taken over by communism. We took our concerns for the people there and did not want to see them fall into the "Domino effect," which if it had been successful, other countries in the area would have fell into communism as well. The concern we had led us to more and more troops being sent in to fulfill the requirement of having enough to fight and lend protection. The more we were able to accomplish with the war, we could lessen up on the troops we sent and remained with the ones we had.

The wars in Iraq & Afghanistan strike me as similar to the war in Vietnam because we are still dealing with other countries and their problems with others. We are fighting for others and in the end more and more of our American troops are getting killed everyday. With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with President Obama he is trying to take out troops while he can without having as many deaths occur. The wars going on today are much like the Vietnam war in the sense that they are having the US, who has ties with the countries, protecting them from what they consider higher forces.