What does "the rooster" have to do with the vietnam war?
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"Rooster" is a popular single by the grunge group Alice in Chains. The single came out in 1993 and is featured on their second official full-length album Dirt. The song was written for guitarist Jerry Cantrell's father, who served in the Vietnam War.\n\nThe lyrics of this song features two points of view in regards to the war - one from the American soldiers' point of view, and the other from the point of view of the Vietnamese.
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Vietnam war was a resource war. We wanted to control the tin, rubber, manganese , the still undeveloped off-shore oil and the largest rice growing region (Mekong Delta) in the world. We poisoned the Delta before we left with Agent Orange and today there are so many deformed births that they are just quietly put down. Vietnam war was a whore just like Iraq.
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Which war ? Vietnam has been at war for one thousnad years .\n" Every generation of men, they grew up knowing they were going to be in a war. The country had a 1,000-year history of warfare — with the Chinese, with the Japanese during World War II, with the French. — You accepted that as a way of life."\n\n" America inherited from the Europeans a world replete with dictators\nEven Vietnam was nothing more than a nasty inheritance from the French "
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The Causes of the Vietnam War\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAndrew J. Rotter\n\nMost American wars have obvious starting points or precipitating causes: the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775, the capture of Fort Sumter in 1861, the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the North Korean invasion of South Korea in June 1950, for example. But there was no fixed beginning for the U.S. war in Vietnam. The United States entered that war incrementally, in a series of steps between 1950 and 1965. In May 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized a modest program of economic and military aid to the French, who were fighting to retain control of their Indochina colony, including Laos and Cambodia as well as Vietnam. When the Vietnamese Nationalist (and Communist-led) Vietminh army defeated French forces at Dienbienphu in 1954, the French were compelled to accede to the creation of a Communist Vietnam north of the 17th parallel while leaving a non-Communist entity south of that line. The United States refused to accept the arrangement. The administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower undertook instead to build a nation from the spurious political entity that was South Vietnam by fabricating a government there, taking over control from the French, dispatching military advisers to train a South Vietnamese army, and unleashing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to conduct psychological warfare against the North.\n\nPresident John F. Kennedy rounded another turning point in early 1961, when he secretly sent 400 Special Operations Forces-trained (Green Beret) soldiers to teach the South Vietnamese how to fight what was called counterinsurgency war against Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam. When Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, there were more than 16,000 U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam, and more than 100 Americans had been killed. Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, committed the United States most fully to the war. In August 1964, he secured from Congress a functional (not actual) declaration of war: the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. Then, in February and March 1965, Johnson authorized the sustained bombing, by U.S. aircraft, of targets north of the 17th parallel, and on 8 March dispatched 3,500 Marines to South Vietnam. Legal declaration or no, the United States was now at war.\n\nThe multiple starting dates for the war complicate efforts to describe the causes of U.S. entry. The United States became involved in the war for a number of reasons, and these evolved and shifted over time. Primarily, every American president regarded the enemy in Vietnam--the Vietminh; its 1960s successor, the National Liberation Front (NLF); and the government of North Vietnam, led by *Ho Chi Minh--as agents of global communism. U.S. policymakers, and most Americans, regarded communism as the antithesis of all they held dear. Communists scorned democracy, violated human rights, pursued military aggression, and created closed state economies that barely traded with capitalist countries. Americans compared communism to a contagious disease. If it took hold in one nation, U.S. policymakers expected contiguous nations to fall to communism, too, as if nations were dominoes lined up on end. In 1949, when the Communist Party came to power in China, Washington feared that Vietnam would become the next Asian domino. That was one reason for Truman's 1950 decision to give aid to the French who were fighting the Vietminh,\n\nTruman also hoped that assisting the French in Vietnam would help to shore up the developed, non-Communist nations, whose fates were in surprising ways tied to the preservation of Vietnam and, given the domino theory, all of Southeast Asia. Free world dominion over the region would provide markets for Japan, rebuilding with American help after the Pacific War. U.S. involvement in Vietnam reassured the British, who linked their postwar recovery to the revival of t
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Do you mean "Apocalypse Now"?  \n\nDo you mean 'anyone'?\n\nI'm sure *someone* can tell you this, so my answer is "yes".  \n\n\nIf I cut out the sarcasm, your question still makes little sense.   I think you are asking, "How did the movie 'Apocalypse Now' portray the Vietnam War?  If you are, then the answer is that it showed the grittiness and the insanity of the war.  It reflected how bizarre the Asian world was to the white man.  But more importantly, it was a character study into the Martin Sheen character, Willard.  Watch the movie and decide for yourself.
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True JFK continued and expanded the US advisory role started by Eisenhower.  The LBJ went ballistic and eventually had more than 536,000 troops in Vietnam.\n\nPersonally I blame the French.  They fought a colonial war with Vietnam (at the time still a single, united country...as it is today) from 1945 to1954.  The US had given the army of Vietman $2.6 billion during their struggle for independence...sound familiar? \n\nHo Chi Minh as the leader of the Vietnamese army; as he was during the American War as the Vietnamese called the Vietnam War.\n\nIn 1954 the French were drawn into battle in a valley at Dien Bien Phu.  This was their last and most costly battle.  Some 6000 French troops died and over 10,000 French soldiers were taken prisoner.\n\nThe French....well, bailed leading to a peace conference in Geneva where Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam received their independence.  Vietnam was temporarily split into north and south.\n\nIn 1958 with the continued communist influence in Vietnam and south east Asia Esienhower sent 2000 US military advisers to the south.  By 1963 under Kennedy the advisors had reached 16,3000 and then on to LBJ.\n\nAnd why do I blame the French....if they had just held on to keep Vietnam their colony to this day then we never would have lost over 58,000 troops.\n\nOK...unrealistic and the French surrender monkeys hadn't won a war since the musket was the modern weapon of war...but I thought a brief history of how the war started might clarify my choice for Presidential blame.
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I'm guessing that you're referring to the sides opposing each other over the Vietnam War. Simply put, the Hawks wanted to fight the war, and the Doves did not.
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Vietnam was a French colony until WWII when it was captured by the Japanese. The main resistance group which eventually saw off the Japanese without Allied help was the Viet-minh, led by Ho Chi Minh. France tried to regain control after the war but was finally defeated at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The Viet-minh communists were prevented from taking over the whole country by US and French-backed forces. The country was partitioned into North (Communist) Vietnam and South (anti-Communist) Vietnam.\n\nThe people of the south had little sympathy for their foreign-controlled government and, according to Richard Nixon himself, 80% of them supported the Viet-cong who wanted to unite with the Communist North. After a protracted war of intervention the US withdrew, defeated, in the late 1970s.
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Here are a ton of links at the bottom of the page:\n\nhttp://www.riverinesailor.com/\n\nhttp://vikingphoenix.com/military/war/vnwar/vietnamwar-usn.htm
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Yes it played a major role into the failures of the Vietnam War.  Limited War provides a safe haven for the enemy, where they can regroup and launch additional attacks.
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Refer to Vietnam.  :D
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The primary mistake is the independant involvement of the media.  Vietnam was the first war that allowed "free reign" of the media, and the media's job is to sell it's copy.  So the real mistake made since Vietnam is allowing a reporter to see a small part of an operation, take it out of context of the whole, and twist it into something horrific to sell papers.
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For the US, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; the Civil War, western expansion, World War II; we came out the number one country in the world from that, and Vietnam caused us to lose our innocence about such things.  For many Vietnam was the glass through which all subsequent issues are viewed.  Also, the Civil Rights movement of the 60's.  AND the great industrial progress:  telephone, autos, planes, etc.
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Here is a nice timeline with root causes of the Vietnam War
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It's a play on the movie released in Clinton's Term, allegedly, about Clintons use of the Military or lack there of, All put up in a movie studio. The Movie ... Wag The Dog. Dustin Hoffman was in it.\n     Check it out. \n\n     http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/
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Tom Cruise was on stage, war injured Vietnam veteran. A sad \ncommentary about how we as a society treated those courageous men and women who served. The song came to mind first, but this just seems more appropriate.
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Personally, I believe it's just another protest song stemming from the Vietnam war (there were sooo many). For those too young to remember, Vietnam vets (of which I was one), were welcomed back to the U.S., not with open arms, but to protests and ridicule. \nThis song just bares that out...that soldiers, no matter what age, nationality, religion, etc, blindly follow the orders of others, without reservation or conscience. I'm not going to any long-winded critique about the song itself....it was just simply another example of the sign of the times.\n\nIn answer to your added details, I'd say anti-soldier. After all, you can't have one (war), without the other (soldier).