Vietnam For 11 years, the most powerful nation in the world made every effort to defeat a nationalist revolutionary movement in a tiny poor country, and failed. The French had been trying to conquer take over long before, but they too had to withdraw at some point after fighting for long with no victory. The U.S., being the ?Yankee imperialists? that we are, took it upon ourselves to help ?protect the world? from communism. The …showed first 75 words of 913 total…

…showed last 75 words of 913 total…communism, and yes we wanted their resources and positioning, but if after 11 years of that kind of fighting and you don?t have what you went out for, then you must not know what you went looking for in the first place. Even after Nixon and South Vietnam signed the peace treaty, the bombing still went on, accomplishing nothing. With no real purpose of going in there, we never knew when to call it quits.