General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Paris in Perspective [View all]Yorktown
(2,884 posts)North VietNam was a dictature ran by a small coterie of mad ideologues.
The South was corrupt, but a far preferable place to live than under Uncle Ho.
See how boat people voted once the North invaded.
This having been said, some of the methods employed by US troops were insane (agent orange)
But the objective was to help a democracy, however corrupt, against Communist colonialism.
Iraq? Colonialism? I wish it had been. At least, that would have been one understandable reason, greed. But no. Iraq was just one big, hugely stupid idea pushed by a handful of idiots for reasons that must have been so profoundly dumb the perpetrators have not owned up yet.
Anyway, whatever one's view on the justification or absence thereof of VietNam or Iraq, the US did not set about to deliberately murder civilians as such.
Which is what the ISIS guys did.