Some people say Vietnam and Korean War was a bad thing for America, but I disagree to some extent. I disagree because if we did not learn how to take charge and surprise our enemy, then how would we be handling the present situation in Afghanistan. The two wars have changed our life because now we know how to hide, trap, surprise our enemy, and we know tactics to be successful over our enemy.
I understand that we lost many lives in the Vietnam and Korean wars, but we also saved a lot. We saved many lives because we learned how to be smart as defenders of a belief. For example, we might have sent swarms of troops into Afghanistan to get Osama Bin Laden and lost life's if we did not learn how to control the enemy and take charge from our past experience.
The Vietnam and Korean War has changed our life because throughout the lectures in class I learned that since then we are more cautious about getting involved in a war. The current war we are in and the Vietnam and Korean War are similar in many ways. Well, the reasons we are there are the same. During the Vietnam and Korean War we were there to make sure that the two countries didn't fall to a Communist government. The reason we didn't want the two countries to fall to a Communist government is because we are afraid of the domino theory. The domino theory is if one country falls to a different type of government then the surrounding countries will also fall to the same government, and eventually the whole world or a majority of it will fall to the same government. In the current war we are fighting, to prevent the Taliban from taking over as the government of Afghanistan. We do not want the people in Afghanistan to fall to the Taliban, so we are there to support a pea!.
ceful way of life.
In conclusion, I still think it was a good thing for the U.S. to be involved in Vietnam and the Korean War.
