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Vietnam War: U.S. zeal to help or the propensity to poke its nose where it’s not wanted?

Vietnam War: U.S. zeal to help or the propensity to poke its nose where it’s not wanted?

Many Americans believed that the US was fighting a war that the Vietnamese people did not want to be fought for them. To say that the US military participation in Vietnam was not popular in the US is an understatement. Many critics felt that what was going on was a civil war between north and south Vietnam, and that the US was poking its nose into [...]