“War is sometimes necessary to preserve freedom.” In the article, “Fighting For Our Freedom,” the author, Tom Mullen states, ¨The first two post-WWII wars were justified for ostensibly the same reason. We supposedly had to prevent the communist governments of North Korea and North Vietnam from taking over South Korea and South Vietnam, respectively, because if we did not, communism would spread like a virus throughout all of Asia and eventually the world. North Vietnam did take over South Vietnam. The U.S. pulled out of Vietnam and in defeat and the very outcome that the U.S. had spent 14 years, the lives of 50,000 U.S. soldiers, and hundreds of billions of dollars attempting to prevent came to pass. The communists took over all of Vietnam.”
