Essay On Disadvantages Of War In The Vietnam War

TO BE WASTE OR NOT TO BE.

When a country goes to war based on its superior protectors it 's out of loyalty but when a country follows the protector to the end and gives all the money and troops and develops the same foreign Policy then it’s a problem and that needs to be reconsidered reports Ainya Schefe.

What Australia sacrificed for the Americans in the Vietnam War can never be replaced, Australia gave the US, men that were slaughtered out of sheer spite and fear for communism, Australia then gave money to a cause that would never be won and now Australia wants to take on the foreign policy of the very country that destroyed precious human life and wasted $218 million dollars that could have been spent on the poverty that is in the community

The Vietnam war cost $167 billion and Australia spent $218 million . This money could have been used to build a school, or sent to overseas to a fund or it could have helped our veterans from the last war. The disadvantages of the war were that it left a country homeless no homes for people and infrastructure ruined, Vietnam struggled to make that infrastructure and homes and we took them away with no consideration. But we lost something more precious to us than money. Money can be replaced people can’t. But the troops that were sent and got slaughter or are missing in action , these men are our sons, fathers, nephews and brothers and they were taken from us to be chess pieces for the government in their game of revenge and fear of communnism. As a group of female activist, that are against Vietnam, shouted out clearly “children are not for burning” 500 were killed in Vietnam and 3000 wounded and that is to many. Not to mention the fact that 950, 000 civilians died in the Vietnam war. Not to mention the number of soldiers overall who died. However, the troops and the money wasn’t a real concern of the government. The foreign policy which contains the main reason why Australia and the US went to