The Fall of Saigon

the terrain was unforgiving to the young American  recruits. The only American ally, South Vietnam, could not hold its own against the ideological and military war waged by its northern neighbor (Colodny, & Shactman, 2009).

The battle for Vietnamese hearts and souls soon lost as the Vietnamese took up arms and joined the worldwide a front against America's military excesses in Vietnam albeit and ironically so, via violent means.

During his second term , President Nixon having already lost by failure  of his  “madman strategy”,where he escalated attacks on North Vietnam with hope scaring his rivals, lost the remaining traces of public goodwill when connected episodes of state house sponsored unlawful espionage-like attacks on anti-war proponents , most notably an attack on Democratic campaign offices, collectively known as “the Watergate scandal” reached the public domain(Colodny, & Shactman, 2009) .

Soon Nixon was faced to resign, and with it signing of a peace agreement in Paris as Nixon's administration finally was presented with an opportunity to end a war (and people suffering) it already had already ended with the capture of Saigon. The thesis explores by the two videos; war only serves to destroy a people's way of life by entrenching anarchy leading to loss of property and life  is  evident even today (Colodny, & Shactman, 2009).

The emotional and psychological scars of the Vietnam war are still felt as survivors and loved ones battle to come to terms with the events of Vietnam war. The situation with Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemeni war, wars similar in circumstances with the Vietnam war, does not help much. As American's continue to lose loved ones,

humanity on both sides of the divide despairs, is history repeating itself?

References

Colodny, L, & Shactman, T (2009), Forty years war: The rise of the Neocons, from Nixon to Obama,New York, NY :Harper Collins Publishers.