Long day
I woke up in time to get to work this morning, it really sucked having to wake up and make it to work, that trip down to lower really doesn't help things either. I have to be ready for the midterm tomorrow, I'm not looking forward to it. LTL is a fine course, but it's just not something that I like putting alot of my time and attention into. Besides that is the Vietnam paper I have due on Friday, I want to have a draft ready to bring to professor Jacobs so I can get new material and some feedback for my paper hopefully. That's not really a top priority right now though as I can always turn in a rewrite at a later date if necessary or even just ask for an extension. I've got down a number of factors that lead to the vietnam war that I want to talk about, but I just don't think it's going to be enough to fill 5 pages. Who knows, these things always come out bigger than I expect them to, it's the double spacing that really throws you. The major factors I'm listing right now are:
1)American Exceptionalism: The feeling of american invincibility amongst the populus after our huge victory in WWII with a relatively small number of casualties.
2)Asian racism: The propoganda spreading asian racism in the WWII era still greatly affected people's perceptions of asians as a whole.
3)The policy of Containment: We were somewhat bound to fight in Vietnam by the SEATO treaty, the Truman Doctrine and we were conversely unbound by the Geneva Accords which would have bound us to respect the situation and allow free elections in Vietnam to take place.
4)The prevailing anti communist movement: Still in the wake of McCarthyism and the height of the red scare in america. The Smith Act had recently been passed making participation in anarchist or socialist/communist groups illegal in the united states lending government support to the anti communist movement.
5)Religious sympathies: The media portrayed the south vietnamese as being a catholic group despite the fact that they were 90% buddhist. This caused the catholic population of america to support the drive for war to protect the South Vietnamese from the "godless communists"
6)Economic reasons: Perhaps the american government underestimated Ho Chi Minh's forces and felt that by stunting the domino effect in asia and keeping american free markets open it would be economically beneficial in the long run.
If you have any more ideas for the paper feel free to contribute.
Otherwise my night is pretty much open, I hope to get all my work done shorty and then I can get a meal and relax for a while.
1)American Exceptionalism: The feeling of american invincibility amongst the populus after our huge victory in WWII with a relatively small number of casualties.
2)Asian racism: The propoganda spreading asian racism in the WWII era still greatly affected people's perceptions of asians as a whole.
3)The policy of Containment: We were somewhat bound to fight in Vietnam by the SEATO treaty, the Truman Doctrine and we were conversely unbound by the Geneva Accords which would have bound us to respect the situation and allow free elections in Vietnam to take place.
4)The prevailing anti communist movement: Still in the wake of McCarthyism and the height of the red scare in america. The Smith Act had recently been passed making participation in anarchist or socialist/communist groups illegal in the united states lending government support to the anti communist movement.
5)Religious sympathies: The media portrayed the south vietnamese as being a catholic group despite the fact that they were 90% buddhist. This caused the catholic population of america to support the drive for war to protect the South Vietnamese from the "godless communists"
6)Economic reasons: Perhaps the american government underestimated Ho Chi Minh's forces and felt that by stunting the domino effect in asia and keeping american free markets open it would be economically beneficial in the long run.
If you have any more ideas for the paper feel free to contribute.
Otherwise my night is pretty much open, I hope to get all my work done shorty and then I can get a meal and relax for a while.