The US Won the Vietnam War

Rebuttals: I. Paris Peace Accords The US war in Vietnam ended in 1973 with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. The accords gave the United States what it wanted. Since the US met all of its objectives there was no need to continue the Vietnam War. Why should we continue fighting a war that we already won? One of its main objectives is to stop the flow of communism in Asia, but it certainly failed. II. Prevented the Domino Effect What we did in Vietnam stopped the flow of communism in Asia, perhaps the entire world. This is a glorious victory for the United States. Again, it failed to achieve this objective. Vietnam is an absolutely communist country. Not to mention Asia and even the world. There are still a number of nations preserving communism. III. Bankrupted the Soviet Union Before, during, and after the war, Vietnam relied increasingly on Soviet economic aid. The Soviets were spending a lot of money in Vietnam. This contributed to their fall. It's a simple fact of the ending of the cold war, not the Vietnam war. Irrelevant argument. IV. We Never Lost a Battle In addition, we lost some 58,000 men and over 300,000 wounded in the Vietnam War. You want to know how much the communists lost? Over 1,000,000 troops along with over 600,000 wounded. We clearly won here. It's quite a pathetic truth that you measure the winner of the war through death. There's no direct connection between the result and the loss of lives. V. Vietnam Payed War Reparations How did we lose the war when Vietnam payed us war reparations. The reason why Vietnam paid reparations is not because of the war itself. My Arguments: 1.The Reunification of Vietnam When North Vietnam and South Vietnam broke out a war, the US gradually got involved. As early as 1950 the US sent military advisors to South Vietnam. They supported the French and later the South Vietnamese government financially. However, North Vietnam eventually took over South Vietnam and therefore became a united nation. So the US failed the war and paved the way for the independence of a new country. 2.America's goal was not achieved The US entered the war to reach an objective that was to stop communist expansion. But the truth now is that Vietnam is still under Communist rule. As a result, the US lost the war. Furthermore, their economy is booming and it now is being transformed into an industrial country, so they successfully survived the war and developed well as a socialist state. Just imagine, why is Vietnam still a socialist country if the US won the war? 3.Vietnam won the war with limited weaponry As is known to all, American weaponry is much more advanced in wartime. However, The Viet Kong defeated the Americans with only a limited amount of guns and artillery. They used systems of underground tunnels and death traps to capture American soldiers. Over 50,000 brave American soldiers died and over 300,000 were injured. This is only a measure in American lives; it does not count the number of South Vietnamese lives - the people the US went in to help in order to preserve democracy. Not only the US lost the war, it also caused a big loss of life and money. 4.America disgraced humanitarianism in the war The involvement of the US in the war was obviously against humanitarianism. The war led millions of people to death. It not only included the dead from South Vietnam and North Vietnam, but also a lot of American soldiers died in this brutal war. Those who had chances to flee away were expelled to leave their home. Is there anything more miserable than being homeless and losing family because of the war? Innocent people were deprived of a stable life which everyone else in the rest of the world has. Finally the US troop withdrew from Vietnam under the massive pressure of its own citizens with conscience. 5.Miserable life of American soldiers after the war When the war ended soldiers not only came back crippled, but were spat at and called baby killers. It was difficult for them to find jobs and to adjust to civilian life again. It was a shock to them and that coupled with the horrors of what they had to endure caused an influx of a high suicide rate among the Vietnam vets. They not only came back without limbs and broken bodies, but broken minds. To this day they still struggle to survive and some are still seeking counseling to try to wipe out the horrors of this useless war. So the US lost the war from the standpoint of its own people! Source: http://www.localhistories.org... http://wiki.answers.com... http://wiki.answers.com... http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com... http://www.irinnews.org... http://en.wikipedia.org... I just simply come to my conclusion that the US failed to win the Vietnam war. (sorry, kind of messy due to my time limits.)