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The Truman Doctrine also contributed to and became rationale for America's first involvements in the [[Vietnam War]]. Starting shortly after the outbreak of the [[Korean War]], Truman attempted to aid France's bid to hold onto its Vietnamese colonies. The United States supplied French forces with equipment and military advisors in order to combat [[Ho Chi Minh]] and anti-colonial communist revolutionaries.

The Truman Doctrine also contributed to and became rationale for America's first involvements in the [[Vietnam War]]. Starting shortly after the outbreak of the [[Korean War]], Truman attempted to aid France's bid to hold onto its Vietnamese colonies. The United States supplied French forces with equipment and military advisors in order to combat [[Ho Chi Minh]] and anti-colonial communist revolutionaries.

Merrill (2006) argues the statement was initially aimed at winning congressional support for aid to Greece and Turkey, but it ultimately underpinned American Cold War policy throughout Europe and worldwide. The doctrine addressed a broader cultural insecurity regarding modern life in a globalized world. The administration's concern over Communism's domino effect, its media-sensitive presentation of the doctrine, and its mobilization of American economic and military power to modernize unstable regions marked the advent of a modern foreign policy. In its maintenance of military preponderance, its nation-building activities, its organization of alliances, its advocacy of "regime change," and its resort at times to limited war against armed insurgencies, the Truman Doctrine foreshadowed the George W. Bush doctrine against international terrorism.

Merrill (2006) argues the statement was initially aimed at winning congressional support for aid to Greece and Turkey, but it ultimately underpinned American Cold War policy throughout Europe and worldwide. The doctrine addressed a broader cultural insecurity regarding modern life in a globalized world. The administration's concern over Communism's domino effect, its media-sensitive presentation of the doctrine, and its mobilization of American economic and military power to modernize unstable regions marked the advent of a modern foreign policy. In its maintenance of military preponderance, its nation-building activities, its organization of alliances, its advocacy of "[[regime change]]," and its resort at times to limited war against armed insurgencies, the Truman Doctrine foreshadowed the George W. Bush doctrine against international terrorism.

 

==Metaphor==

==Metaphor==

The Truman Doctrine has become a metaphor for emergency aid to keep a nation from communist influence. Truman used disease imagery not only to communicate a sense of impending disaster in the spread of communism but also to create a "rhetorical vision" of containing it by extending a protective shield around non communist countries throughout the world.  It echoed the "quarantine the aggressor" policy [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] wished to impose on Germany and Japan in 1937--("quarantine" suggested the role of public health officials handling an infectious disease). The medical metaphor extended beyond the immediate aims of the Truman Doctrine in that the imagery combined with fire and flood imagery evocative of disaster provided the United States with an easy transition to direct military confrontation in later years with communist forces in Korea and Vietnam. By presenting ideological differences in life or death terms, Truman was able to garner support for this communism-containing policy.

The Truman Doctrine has become a metaphor for emergency aid to keep a nation from communist influence. Truman used disease imagery not only to communicate a sense of impending disaster in the spread of communism but also to create a "rhetorical vision" of containing it by extending a protective shield around non communist countries throughout the world.  It echoed the "quarantine the aggressor" policy [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] wished to impose on Germany and Japan in 1937--("quarantine" suggested the role of public health officials handling an infectious disease). The medical metaphor extended beyond the immediate aims of the Truman Doctrine in that the imagery combined with fire and flood imagery evocative of disaster provided the United States with an easy transition to direct military confrontation in later years with communist forces in Korea and Vietnam. By presenting ideological differences in life or death terms, Truman was able to garner support for this communism-containing policy.