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From: Frank Fusco
T1: FCFUSCO@AOL.COM
Date: 10/22/99
Time: 12:16:06 AM
Remote Name: 152.163.201.197
There certainly is a correlation between the spread of Communism and a rise in labor costs. American intervention in Vietnam was the result of our government's desire to protect foriegn investment in an overseas market. While the French were in power in Vietnam, the Vietnamese people were subject to tyrannous and oppressive rule which dissalowed them basic rights and fair labor. Because of the fact that these people were violently oppressed by military measures, they largely didn't contest the unfair labor practices they were subject to. However, after World War Two, France was financially drained and needed American aid to hold onto Vietnam. Because Vietnam was rich in natural resources as well as it was a means for cheap labor, the US government deemed a potential loss of the Vietnamese colony an economic blow. Therefore, military measures were taken to prevent the loss of Vietnam as a European colony.
For the Vietnamese people, Communism offered new hope and promise for a better life. In the brief, temporary absense of European rule, the Vietnamese people already witnessed an improvement in the quality of life as they new it. Communism becmame so appealing to the Vietnamese masses because they would be able to finally own the land they worked on. However, this possibility of Vietnamese land ownership spelled economic disaster for Europe and the US. If the Vietnamese people succeeded in establishing their own indepenent Communist rule, the land would be theirs and trade would become more balanced which translated into a reduction in profit for the US and Europe. Furthermore, if the Vietnamese people were successful in their quest for independent Communist rule, an exmample would be set for other colonized nations to follow, further cutting into first world profit margins. This was the true domino effect American politicians were so afraid of.
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