U.S. in Vietnam

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"This study will first argue that the United States should have been involved in Vietnam, will then argue that the United States should not have been involved, and will conclude with a summary of the arguments.

The United States should have been involved in Vietnam because it was necessary for the leader of the Free World to take a stand against Communism in a vitally strategic area of the world.

In the Boettiger-edited Vietnam and American Foreign Policy (published in 1968 and therefore covering only part of the war), Scalapino contributes an essay entitled "We Cannot Accept a Communist Seizure of Vietnam."

Writing in 1966, Scalapino writes, with respect to the United States and Vietnam, that "We face a challenge in Asia similar in its proportions to that which we faced in Europe 20 ..."

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