Magical Place

By the 1950’s communism had become an epidemic that had politicians and Americans in hysterics. The United States government went against its own democracy, believing that by containing communism and slowing its spread they would be better able to kill it, the United States adopted a preventive attitude towards communism. By creating a barrier they centralized communism in one area which would decrease the number of people who had that ideology in. Not only was America the only country that government officials wanted to have the influence of democracy but places like Vietnam and Korea. The war between Vietnam was not justified because America wanted to guide the countries that were developing into a democratic society by going against its own moral by forcing a form of government makes it unjustified. Although Americas attempt from Vietnam to become a democracy it cost the U.S. a lot of lives that did not have to be American lives. However the 1950s just proved the expansion of government by invading American and non American opinions because everything that was not considered the American way was communist.
John F. Kennedy practiced the Truman doctrine for America to “…pay any price to stop the spread of communism… and fight any war and risk war to keep communism out” (Pettengill 6-21-12). The fascist regime that communism shared had Americas manipulated into strictly thinking that democracy was the only way to a better America. Kennedy did not want the radicalism or fascism of the Soviet Union into the United States because it wanted control on the elite while democracy on the people. Democracy is what America gloats about but to force a form of government system on Vietnam suppresses the developed country and its people. The Vietnam War is sugar coated into fighting for democracy and manipulating civilians to believe otherwise. The war causes fascist counties and people to be anti democratic because of the force used, many innocent people as well as American civilians got killed to stand for democracy making not justified because of the lives lost. America in a way had become that radical country without realizing it because it wanted to force a form of government without questions asked because democracy was the “best” form of government.
In Caputo’s “A Rumor of War” he urges the act of war as a guide into democratic societies and to discontinue radicalism and communism for the American freedom, democracy. As an expansion of government the ability to influence people into the disgust of fascist is contained to stop the spread. Kennedy’s inauguration speech spoke too many American citizens who enlisted and forced to in the war to protect America from the fascist form of government, but the after math of the war would become a trial date for the next man who served to fight for such democracy. Caputo demonstrates his frustration upon returning from the war “As I had come to see it, America could not intervene in a people’s war without killing some of the people” (Caputo 323). As a lieutenant in the Marine Corp. Caputo was discouraged by the idea to spread the way of life for people trying to get their independence like Vietnam because all those innocent people died. The American intervention into Vietnam should not have called for thousands of people dead because in the end Vietnam chooses another form of radical government that does not abide to America. Caputo mentions the corrupt system that America fought for because he says “I was finished with governments and their abstract causes, and I would never again allow myself to fall under the charms and spells of political witch doctors like John F Kennedy” (Caputo 332). Caputo crates the sense that people no longer had the same view as to why their fighting a war that suppresses the ideology of another country. The allegation then rises that America is fighting a war in which it wants to diminish communism but it raises confusion because at the same America is becoming radical to suppress communism.
The Vietnam War acts as an expansion of government by which America seeks ways to suppress the form of government of other developed countries to guide into democratic societies and to discontinue radical ideologies of communism. However the war turned democracy against its own reason to fight for because democracy is the best way of life. For America democracy is the fittest form of government because there is no such thing as perfect government. But the civilians who were forced to or enlisted into the war saw democracy as the radicalism of political power. The moral belief that many Americans only knew was that democracy is a better way of life but for those who thought otherwise were considered communist. Americas should not live in hysteria nor should the government create fear to attempt to make every developing country into a democracy.