Why Did South Korea Lose The Vietnam War

During the War in Korea, the main intention was to gain South Koreas territory

and to stop the spread of Communism. The war never really ended even while the Peace

negotiations were currently happening. (Wikipedia) The war didn’t end till South Korea

gained back its territory. South Korea built it’s heavily armed border between their side

of the country and the North Koreans. The U.S. troops didn’t withdrawal from their

occupation in South Korea since the main intention’s to stop the communist spread and to

keep an eye one North Korea. There were heavy losses of American troops and the fight

was going back and forth with the front lines till they settle a border a couple of miles

above Seoul. This is the decision
of the Conservatives to keep our troops and occupation

in South Korea due to the fact that North Korea would have intentions of attacking South

Korea. The U.S. would rather not pull their occupation from South Korea due to the fact

of the intentions of Communist spread. If North Korea takes over South Korea, it would

eventually take Japan, and not only that, they would be closer to the United States.
Since

after the Cold War, they wouldn’t want the Communists to have ideas to start taking over

the U.S.

In the Vietnam War, It also involved the Communists getting involved in their

spread. It was unstable in Vietnam where cities and villages were terrorized, and taken

over by Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese forces. The attacks would eradicate

throughout South Vietnam. The U.S. gave support and aid to South Vietnam from heavy

and intensive guerilla warfare. The war came to a serious negotiation to end the war with

North Vietnam, the United States, and including South Vietnam. There were a high

number of U.S. casualties, and the exposure of U.S. involvement in war crimes such as

the massacre at My Lai helped to turn many people in the United States against the war.

The peace agreement was reached and signed on January 27, of 1973. That says to

provide the end of hostilities, the withdrawal of U.S. and the allied troops, the return of

prisoners of war, and the formation of a four-nation international control commission to

ensure peace. (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.) This war began
and

ended up with no gains, but the U.S. did stop the spread of communism and for the

country to gain its control. After the heavy losses in troops and war crimes, it made the

people of the United States to protest against the war. It seems in this war, Liberals has

more say in pulling the troops out of the war, but the Conservatives did gain from the fact

that it has stopped the spread of communists and stopped the hostilities.

In the Gulf War, it was led by Saddam Hussein, when Iraq invaded it’s tiny

neighboring country of Kuwait during 1990. The U.S. and the people, was also backed by

the United Nations to support Kuwait in a counter attack. Their intentions were to force

the Iraqis out of Kuwait. In 1991, is when the Gulf War of the first conflict begun. The

U.S. drove Iraqis out of Kuwait in under a week with less American deaths, and left Iraq

crippled with many losses. (The Bush Administration) Conservatives had more say in

kicking out the Iraqis from Kuwait, having left with the preservation of Kuwaitis oil and

stopping instabilities of a dictator. It wasn’t till Saddam Hussein refused to get their

troops out of Kuwait is when the Operation of Desert Storm executed. (Persian Gulf)