The U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was justified.

I will be arguing that the Vietnam war, even in hindsight, was justified and that rather than have withdrawn from Vietnam, the U. S. should have invaded Hanoi 1) The draft, The draft is not unconstitutional and has been used many times in U. S. history and was even used by President Abraham Lincoln to draft men in the U. S. Civil War to fight against the Confederacy, Woodrow Wilson to draft men to fight in World War 1 and even Franklin Roosevelt in World War 2, hopefully causes my opponent doesn't oppose. Every U. S. citizen has the obligation to serve when the time comes and they are physically able. The point I'm trying to make is that the draft is currently a legitimate and constitutional form of the United States to recruit soldiers in a time of war and always has been. To argue that during the Vietnam war drafting was unjustified and the theft of one's liberties would mean Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Wilson were opposed to civil liberties. 2) We Lost We in fact did not pull out after "failing", as my opponent claims. We began to pull out as a result of Nixon's Vietnamization program which was designed to gradually return the control and responsibility of the fight to the South Vietnamese army. We did in fact, bring North Vietnam to negotiating at the peace table after the massive bombing campaign, Linebacker II, was launched against Hanoi, the North Vietnamese capital, and the seaport of Haiphong harbor. North Vietnam then signed the Paris Peace Accords agreeing to cease military actions in the South which allowed us to pull out the remaining soldiers we had and that is how we left the war, with South Vietnam fully in control of South Vietnam with a very effective military at their disposal. 3) Dead, Wounded Soldiers and civilians die by large numbers in every war, to say the Vietnam war was unjustified on the basis of number of people who died would mean all wars are wrong and every instance of armed conflict is unjustified. While it is regretable that so many men died it cannot be ignored that South Vietnam was engaged in the war to defend themselves and prevent the ahniliation of their democratic government in the South. Now if the South Vietnamese and Americans were fighting to enslave and kill native populations in the region then the casualties caused and absorbed would be ridiculously high, but South Vietnam was fighting to defend themselves which is the most justified reason for ever going to war. A war was inevitable due to the fact the North would not relent in attacking South Vietnam so large amounts of casualties due to a civil war were going to be unavoidable. And to say that there wasn't anything gained, which I assume you are referring to mean as, effectively ending the war by taking North Vietnam by force, would not mean the war was justified, simply poorly conducted by U. S. politicians. 4) The atocities committed after the U. S. left Vietnam To this day many human rights organizations critisize Vietnam for their oppression of political opposition, homosexuals, and many forms of religion After the U. S. left, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia committed a massacre of more than 2,000,000+ civilians in 4 years by executing the intellectuals and subjecating everyone else to slave labor, effectively oppressing Cambodia and making the people more poverty stricken and killing up to more than 3 million people. Had a strong U. S. presence still been in Vietnam such a government committing such murders would have been stopped or prevented by forces from the neighbooring nation of South Vietnam After the fall of Saigon thousands of ARVN soldiers, supporters, and officials were sent to concentration camps to be tortured and killed by the forces of the North. . http://en.wikipedia.org... . http://en.wikipedia.org... . http://www.vietnamwar.net... . http://www.britannica.com... . http://www.enotes.com... . http://www.factasy.com... . http://findarticles.com...