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Dielle Ghislaine Ochotorena
American Studies 1/2

Destructiveness of Obedience

Alot of people like to believe that the world is generally all good or all evil; however, in reality they are the yin and yang of the human condition, and they are the labels we put on things that either appeal to us or don’t. The biblical story of Lucifer, who before he was banished from Heaven, was God’s favorite angel. Lucifer in the story, defied God which was the ultimate disobedience to authority in everyone’s mind and so Lucifer was sent to Hell. Disobedience is seen as this sinful action that should be abolished as quickly as it arrived, people are oblivious to the good that can come from disobeying authority and more importantly the destructiveness …show more content…

American soldiers have become blind followers to authorities unknown, in a far away place, following orders that puts them in a predicament of whether to stand by their own morals or adhere to the orders given to them for the sake of ‘preserving democracy’.
The Vietnam War, took place in the backdrop of the Cold War. Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel with the communist north and the capitalist south during the Geneva Conference of 1959 and both parts of Vietnam were supported by two of the largest powers in the world, Northern Vietnam allied with China and Southern Vietnam was backed by the U.S. President Johnson was determined to engage in the Vietnam affairs but lacked a sufficient reason to get involved. Johnson was strong-willed in getting the U.S. involved like Franklin D. Roosevelt was during WWII, to send troops to Vietnam, again similarly to FRD he need a spark to gain the people’s support in order to do so. “In August 1964 the USA claimed that US warships had been attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. In January 1965 the CIA staged a landing of North Vietnamese troops” (Eggleston). Due to the “attack” on U.S. warships, Johnson found the perfect excuse to initiate “Operation Rolling Thunder”, the beginning of aerial bombing of North Vietnam. Three weeks later Johnson sent over the first U.S. combat troops to Vietnam. In the next few years of the war American presence in Vietnam was raised to

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