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Question: Who won in Vietnam war!? And do you think U!.S!. should involve in Vietnam War!? Who should be blamed for that war!?
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There's a very good book (and now a movie) called, Vietnam: The Ten-Thousand Day War!. It will give you all the background information you need!.

IMHO, nobody won the Vietnam War!. Vietnam is a country that has been more or less at war since 300 B!.C!. Amongst the conflicts that have scarred it are no less than three separate Mongol invasions, repeated occupations by China, and a civil war that lasted more than 40 years!.

The Japanese Empire occupied Vietnam during World War II, taking sovereignty away from the French!. Because the Vietnamese joined to help defeat the Japanese, they felt (rightly) that they deserved their freedom from French occupation!. Following Japan's surrender, however, it was business as usual for the French, so the Vietnamese continued fighting!.

(For a behind-the-scenes look at what the war was like during the French occupation, be sure to read "Devil's Guard", by George Robert Elford!. It's about the French Foreign Legion fighting the Viet Minh)

After France surrendered at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the country was divided into North and South, and the American forces picked up the slack when the French withdrew!. Can you imagine how that felt for the Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese people!? All that fighting, and there was still a Western superpower occupying their country!.

Twenty years later with the fall of Saigon, and the American evacuation, the NVA and VC won the war!. Or, did they!?

True, the Japanese Empire failed to tame Vietnam, and the empire fell apart with the surrender of Emperor Hirohito to General MacArthur!. The French lost at Dien Bien Phu, and their colonial possessions today are little more than a few scattered islands!. The Americans took a brutal beating, and its veterans today are still scarred and haunted by the war!. But what did North Vietnam really win!?

Consider this: modern warfare had blasted across the Vietnamese country for more than 40 years!. Mines are still exploding there, artillery shells gouged huge holes in the rice fields, and Agent Orange defoliant has devestated huge swaths of the jungles which even today have not yet recovered!.

For the Vietnamese, it was a Pyrrhic victory! This is what I mean: King Pyrrhus of Epirus, defeated the Romans at Heraclea in 280 BC and Asculum in 279 BC during the Pyrrhic War!. After the Battle, King Pyrrhus stated that "One more such victory will undo us!." He had lost most of his army, all of his friends, and he had no reserves at all! Although the Romans had technically lost the battle, they had fresh troops arriving by the hour, and were now determined to win!.

The Vietnamese had no more infrastructure, millions of dead and wounded, and the subsequent trade embargo by the United States destroyed their chances of bringing in foreign capital!. And, like everywhere else in the world, communism reduced the country to a Spartan wasteland!.

So, who won the Vietnam War!? Nobody!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

In this conflict, the US (and South Vietnam) did not achieve their objective!. North Vietnam, on the other hand, did achieve its objective!. North Vietnam, by any reasonable definition of the word, was clearly the "winner"!.
As for blame: Had the US not become involved, some sort of conflict would undoubtedly have ensued regardless!. But it would not have been the conflict we actually had, nor would it have been anything like it!. The war we actually had took place because the US chose to become involved in the internal politics of a foreign country!. Without US involvement, there would have been no "Vietnam War" as we know it!.
Following WW2, the Allied powers sought to restore France and to restore to it all its pre-war holdings, and the US was active in seeking to restore France's colonial hold on Vietnam!. The US did not support the Geneva Accords (which guaranteed the reunification of Vietnam on a democratic basis) because of a fear that a democratic vote would have resulted in support for Ho Chi Minh!. The US preferred to support Diem, the corrupt leader of the South!.The US also believed in the (now completely disproven) "domino theory", which predicted that all of South East Asia would turn Communist if North Vietnam won!.
The US was wrong to support France's colonialism in South East Asia, was wrong not to support democracy, was wrong to support a corrupt, dictatorial regime, and was wrong to believe it had any right to destroy half a country over an absurd belief in the "domino theory!." The biggest mistake the US made was that it never actually understood the Vietnamese situation; it never understood what the Vietnamese were actually fighting for!. This extraordinary arrogance and ignorance on the part of the US is the absolute cause of the Vietnam War!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The answers already given above contain much valid information, and I would only like to add my two cents worth!.

The Vietnamese won their independence, not once but twice!
The first time was against the French, who were not prepared to let the people of Vietnam run their own affairs too soon!. When the French left the Democratic Republic of Vietnam came into being a nation - de facto and de jure!.

The second time was against the whole farce of the Vietnamese dictator Ngo Dinh Diem and the American military advisers and their failed attempt to build the artificial nation they called the "Republic of Vietnam" after the failed attempts at negotiations in Geneva in 1954 that split Vietnam temporarily into "North" and "South!."

It was not a popular revolution that brought Diem's republic into being in October (23-26) 1955!.

The so-called "Viet Cong" were formed in December of 1960 as an organization of all those who were against Diem's dictatorship!. The eventual unification of all of Vietnam was also a cause that these people fought for!. By that time there were already 900 American military advisers maintaining Diem's unpopular and anti-democratic dictatorship!.

I did not answer this question to place the blame on anyone!. At the time the American government and people believed they were protecting "South Vietnam" while they denied the socialist republic in the north based on a theory which used dominoes as an analogy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Lawrence did a fabulous job on his assessment of Vietnam and its history!. But he failed to lay blame on the U!.S!. involvement!. So, if I may be so bold!.

The U!.S!. involvement is the direct result of Kennedy's refusal to adhere to the Eisenhower policy to avoid small conflicts around the world!. Ike's VP (Nixon) had visited French Indo China and returned believing that the U!.S!. should join in the fray to assist saving the French!. Ike said "No!." His basic policy was one of "All or Nothing" when it came to the use of Nukes!. They were always to be a viable option and were only to be used when absolutely necessary!. The intent was to keep the U!.S!. out of small scale conflicts that had little bearing on U!.S!. interests!. When Kennedy took office, that was one of his first of the old regime policies he immediately threw out!. Had he stuck with it, we would probably never have gone there!.Www@QuestionHome@Com