[speaker001:] what are your views Mister
[speaker002:] uh I think Vietnam war was justified but it was carried out badly unfortunately politician got a hold of it and it was a military victory but it was uh I'd say uh a political defeat what what what do you think about of world I mean the Vietnam War
[speaker001:] well I'm just not really still not really sure why the war started uh there was a conflict with the Vietnamese had conflict with the French I I know that and they've been in a war like state for seems like most of the time that their countries been prospering so they're just award tarnation
[speaker002:] no uh from what I remember was uh the French had a Vietnam as a colony
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and then after the war World War II uh Vietnam wanted to become independent of of France
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so they started an up rising and that was the French and oh Chinese War
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and and uh basically Vietnamese Vietnamese where beating the French so we took over because we had our containment policy and uh the north side of Vietnam went to Russia for military aid and so we didn't want so we didn't want Vietnam become communist so that's why we started supporting the South Vietnamese Vietnamese that's how the war started
[speaker001:] does oil come into the equation all of that is there oil in that area see oil is a a motivating factor for most of the
[speaker002:] uh
[speaker001:] altercations that go on in the world
[speaker002:] but it's not necessarily oil I I I know you are talking about like uh natural resources but I don't think they had that much of a natural
[speaker001:] exactly
[speaker002:] to much natural resource it's just like I said our we had a containment policy and if we didn't help the South Vietnamese
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] the North Vietnamese would have definitely won and then our views in those days they would have become communist or pinko
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so we didn't want that so we got into the war
[speaker001:] what about what do you think about strategic location just as if you think about it Russia has Cuba which is an island outside the United States and United States has Japan that's right out side of Cuba it it does Vietnam have a any strategic location
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh actually I I I really haven't considered that much about a strategic location
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] hum uh other than it being another country falling to the to pinkos or the communist no not to much real strategic location it's just uh for for Russia to continue it has to expand if it doesn't expand it'll collapse
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so by doing our containment policy we're defeating Russia
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I don't know if uh if that containment policy was was right or the best
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but that was our our little view then
[speaker001:] I sort of believe that the Vietnam because of the Vietnam war and the the way that the United States exited from it that that has brought on other scrimmages and I I thinks that that's some what related to the Gulf War because it makes the American people keep safe face
[speaker002:] uh I I I agree partial with you the Vietnam War made us loose loose faith uh politically and and that and and to the fact that the American public can't stomach war or high causality so we aren't really steadfast in that regard but military we unquestionably you know unquestionably quick ass in Vietnam
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh it might have had probably did have some repercussions repercussions towards now you know people do the enemy does know if the America takes high causality it will leave
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] just like in uh uh that uh a car bombing or three hundred marines were killed and we just got the hell out
[speaker001:] from um-hum um-hum is this is this something in your in your military in your military training that that uh suggests that that is a um procedure of the of the American way of war
[speaker002:] uh what what is uh low causality or high causalities
[speaker001:] right is there you know like there