Popular w/the US because he was anti-communist. Unpopular w/RVN citizens because he was considered (by some) to be a dictator.
because they do
The United States did not have a dictator.
Because Bennito Mussilini waS a dictator
I'm going to go out on a really big limb here: The U.S. buys things from communist countries because they make things that you and I want to buy.
Because Vietnam's government was communist
The United States has never had a totalitarian communist dictator.
The U.S. was propping up an anti-communist dictator in order to keep a communist dictator out of power.
In 1959, a Communist Revolt against CUBA's US-supported dictator, Batista, was successful and established the current Cuban Castro Regime.
Cuba
Popular w/the US because he was anti-communist. Unpopular w/RVN citizens because he was considered (by some) to be a dictator.
Because the Subic naval station and Clark air force base were important to US interests in the region, and also because of the anti-communist stance of Marcos during the Cold War.
Joseph Stalin allied himself with the US, but only until World War 2 was over.
The US supported Fulgencio Batista not because he was a dictator but because he was more favorable to US concerns than the Communists who eventually took over.
because they do
they would oppose the US government because they believe in abolishing the government. In other words, they do not want a government.
Because he was a communist dictator that allowed the Russians to build nuclear weapons in Cuba that could easily reach key targets in the United States. See "Cuban Missile Crisis."