Vietnam an immoral war
As with all wars, the American involvement in the Vietnam conflict was surrounded with controversy. During the course of a war death and destruction are inflicted upon humans and environments. One could argue death and destruction is never justified and therefore war is always immoral. ... However, inevitably the tactics of war often do become immoral. This was the case during the Vietnam conflict. Through a series of immoral and therefore controversial tactics and actions, the Vietnam war ended up being a huge loss of human life and only a delay for the eventual communist take-over of South Vietnam.# The conflict in Vietnam began in the late nineteenth century when France conquered Vietnam and claimed it as part of France.# The French were in control of Vietnam until the battle of Dien Bien Phu on May 8th 1954. This was battle where the communist general Vo Nguyen Giap defeated the French resulting in Vietnam becoming an independent country.# After the war at the Geneva convention the Viet Minh general, Ta Quang Buu and the French general, Henri Delteil signed a treaty agreeing to split Vietnam into two countries, North Vietnam and South Vietnam. ... did not agree to this and neither did Bao Dai who was the last president of Vietnam. ... However, there was still a rebel communist presence in South Vietnam in the form of the Viet Cong.# Ho Chi Minh wanted to reunite North and South Vietnam into one communist country. After the Split the French and the United States occupied South Vietnam, North Vietnam resented this occupation. ... destroyer the “Maddox” was allegedly attacked by three North Vietnamese ships in international waters 30 miles off the coast of Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin.# A few days later the Northern Vietnamese forces bombed Bien Hoa airbase in South Vietnam. ... # This was this which was the beginning of American involvement in the Vietnam War. The war continued until April 30th 1975 when the last U.