American Involvement in Vietnam War

The novel Morning Glories among the Peas was written by crowd D. Seddon, a mechanic and expert surveillance personnel of the US army. He was one of the US soldiers who was compound in the Vietnam War. In this novel, he wrote around of his experiences albeit fighting and surviving in Vietnam. Nevertheless, he in any case offered some political issues that he thinks should be addressed by the US government. The Vietnam War was both a warfarefare machine and ideological war. When Vietnam was divided into two parts North and sulphur Vietnam, tensions were rising amongst the two nations.North Vietnam had a Communist government back up by both the Soviet Union and Red China. It was headed by Ho Chi Minh who defeated the French during the Vietnamese war of independence. southerly Vietnam was democratic in government. A duly constituted government was elected by the South Vietnamese under the terms of its constitution. South Vietnam was supported by the joined States. When the Nort h Vietnamese army invaded South Vietnam, call for its defense was alerted by the join States. Allied nations of the United States responded and began sending troops to South Vietnam.The United Nations Security Council called for the deployment of troops in South Vietnam to relieve the pressure from the South Vietnamese army trapped in the invasion. The United States, under the government of Lyndon Baines Johnson displace troops to Vietnam without the formal declaration of War. Hence, the Vietnam War came to its early phase of battle. The book was about a Vietnam War veteran who saw the horrible events in the war the bloody massacre of villages by US troops suspected of hiding North Vietnamese, the frequent ambush of US marines in the jungles of Vietnam, and many different events narrated in the book.Since the book is non-fiction, it guarantees a wide range of historical discourse on policies on war and political ideological struggles. Nevertheless, the wide array of schematic d ialogues and conjunctures betweens characters provide the audience the atmosphere of intense conflict, of which, the close to pervasive is the reality of war as politics and of politics as war. The Vietnam War was the longest war involving the United States (1961-1975), yet it was only the war in which the United States was defeated.The intense realities of the war which the actor was laborious to convey in his novel was a blanch or result of ideological struggle between the US and the Communist bloc. It was often argued that the United States fought a war of non-sense, but policy-makers at that time were not concerned of practicality, but only of necessity. Vietnam was strategic since it holds the key to the numerous bodies of water surrounding the newly-born democratic republics of southeastern Asia. If Southeast Asia fell to the Communists, what are then the chances for the United States to maintain its ideological dominance?The implication of the authors argument may hold th e key to the very purpose of sending expeditions to South Vietnam. Soldiers were sent to a land where they have no affinities. They were serving a war that does not suit their interests. Added to that, the war seemed to be a reflection of their nations stance to maintain world leadership at all costs, by all means. Hence then, the experiences of the veteran in the novel were a reflection of the bigotry of the insistence of the United States to maintain its ideological dominance in the form of a genuine defense of democracy. It was in many way of lifes irresponsible, unconcerned, and strategic from the point of view of those who fought in the battle fronts. As for the author, his experiences of gaunt massacres of villages, poisoning of wells, senseless killings of soldiers, indiscriminate bombings of cities and towns, were the direct results of this desire the desire for ideological and military dominance. It was even implied in the title of the novel. Do morning glories really fo und among peas?Does this serves as an allegory of the conflicting conditions in Vietnam and the United States? Or does this indicate a struggle for ideological dominance? Or simply a way of reiterating the realities of war brought by the things mentioned above? It seems that the novel covered these issues presented, although some of them may be highlighted and some send packing aside. The realities presented by the author (who was a veteran of the war) were, in my interpretation, the embodiment of the war policies of the United States.These were policies that prioritize political orientation rather than human dignity. The novel also presented the decay of human dignity brought about by the Vietnam War. homophile dignity is generally found in the ability of humans to live comfortably without the interference of foreign powers, that is, free development under the term of a just legal standard. The intrusion of the United States into the lives of the South Vietnamese brought them a nguish and despair.The United States also suffered because it lost almost 500, 000 men in the war. Nevertheless, it lost the self-conceit and status achieved decades ago. It was generally an unwarranted war. The novel is generally a good source of historical cultivation about the war in Vietnam. It also gives a thorough and clear description of Vietnam its people, goals, and achievements. Nevertheless, it should be illustrious that there are some form of biases in the novel sometimes favoring the United States sometimes fight its war policies.For instance, to describe the North Vietnamese as senseless killing machines is generally unacceptable especially for educated men who view these people as freedom-loving. Nevertheless, it can also be argued that the book also suffered from the credulities of a simplistic master piece. Although it accurately describes reality, the author was unable to highlight his literary style in the novel (novice). Reference Seddon, James D. 1990. Morni ng Glories among the Peas A Vietnams Veteran Story. Iowa State. e-bay bookstore download. http//worldcat. org//22181821?