The Paradoxes Of The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was probably the most problematic of all US wars, not the least due to the fact that there were many paradoxes. The US built up a harsh regime in the south of Vietnam in the name of protecting democracy; “saving” lives by destroying villages and communities. Although America was only meant to "advise" the Vietnamese; the border was crossed very quickly. This was mostly caused by the vague definition of the US objectives; everything was quite unclear and imprecise so that no one really knew what to do concretely. The Vietnam War was supposed to be a war against communism, but it went much deeper than that. Throughout the war, US policy meandered, initially they tried to “Americanize” the war just to “Vietnamize” it back again a couple
As the son of a mandarin father, who worked as a traveling teacher, he was exposed to the wide world, at quite a young age. At 21, in the year 1911, he boarded a steamer and travelled the world. Before the beginning of the First World War, he settled in Paris, where he worked as a journalist. It was there where he joined the French Socialists. Only five years later the global attention was focused on Ho for the first time, when he failed to call on US President Woodrow Wilson to demand the right for self-determination. In 1920, he joined the French Communists, who were the only ones who were strictly against colonialization and listened to him. Soon after, he was in a lot of trouble with the French police after publishing some harsh newspaper articles, which led him to flee the country in 1924. From then on, Ho lived an unsteady life, moving country several times, earning money through journalism. His time in exile gave him a chance to become a professional revolutionary and fluent in many languages. In the year 1929, he decided to lead his own party by founding the Communist Party of Indochina in Hong Kong. Their sole objective was to free Vietnam from the claws of