Since we Americans were apparently too stupid to recognize a sunk cost fallacy when we saw one, we ramped our operations in support of the State of Vietnam even as France cut its losses, leading to another 20 years of bloodletting that ended with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (by all accounts with more legitimacy amongst the Vietnamese people of the time) winning any-fucking-way.
It’s just an amusing factoid that we got involved to support the French, but the French turned against the war before we did.
I mean, as I said in the explanation:
It’s just an amusing factoid that we got involved to support the French, but the French turned against the war before we did.