Someone recently asked me what I thought about the War in Vietnam. My response surprised him. I said that I was happy that the war ended. He asked me to elaborate and below was the jist of our conversation.
I look at the current world situation, especially what is happening in the Korean Peninsula, and am grateful that the war ended. I think Vietnam would be in a similar situation as North and South Korea had the war not ended. Both conflicts were really proxy wars between US, China, and Russia. They have to supply the weapons and the resources on both sides to continue the fighting. Many ongoing conflicts in the world right now are that. The end of the war caused harm to the losing side but in 20-50 years Vietnam would be better off as a people and a nation because they are united. We are seeing that now in the overall economic development whereas in the Korean Peninsula, the South is wealthy and the North is starving.
The best thing that happened to Vietnam (both North & South) on April 30, 1975 is that over 2 million Vietnamese people have scattered all over the world in pursuit of new opportunities. Their offspring have been benefiting of the best education and training from the rest of the world and someday will return to their former homeland to build a more prosperous Vietnam. I started seeing many good things happening every time I went back to Vietnam.
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