First reason the U.S should have not joined the war is because it wasn't there conflict to begin with. They joined because of Harry S Truman and he’s Truman Doctrine, which tells America to stop the spread of the communism. Presidents Eisenhower became president after and continued the Truman …show more content…
An example is when the U.S did a massacre at a village called My Lai killing several hundreds. For the deaths of the whole war in total 900,000 were North Vietnamese and Vietcong soldiers, 223,000 were ARVN troops from South Vietnam, and about a million were civilians there. U.S military crosses 58,000 deaths including Australians and New Zealander. According to H write t now continue a Van lau a communist officer he said, “there was at least one dead, or some wounded in each Vietnamese family.” Around 800,000 children had been orphaned or abundance due to the death of their parents fighting the war. Heavy U.S bombings had made damage and destruction to many villages. Six percent of rubber plantation, 148,200 acre (60,000 hectares) of mangrove forests, and a million of acres of farm animals had been killed. About 200,000 senior military officers and soldiers from the South Vietnam were killed, and the rest were captured and placed in camps where they worked all day and in the evening. They were given instructions in communist theory and obedience to the government. Objectors were sent to the ‘discipline houses’ where they were jailed for many months, not being permitted to see daylight and threatened with