Vietnam was all about stopping the spread of communism. I'm old enough to remember the cold war. As a child, I listened to my grandparents talk about it. My grandpap escaped from Croatia after it had been swallowed up into Communist Yugoslavia. Communism was feared and hated.
Also, I'm not sure there was a problem with oil supplies at the time of our involvement in Vietnam, at least not a problem that the average person pondered. I can remember the late 60s when gas prices were extremely low, like $.28/gal. And there were 'gas wars' where two stations next to each other would lower prices a penny at a time, trying to outdo each other. My mom always bought from the small, independent station no matter the price, though.
Anyway, no. Vietnam was about stopping communism. Period. But creating other reasons and brand new history now sure makes for interesting discussion, huh?
