Anti-Vietnam war explanation?

Question

why were many against Vietnam war? Like..how did it make the public distrust the u.s government and what made the military less popular?

Answer 1

after the fact the best argument i've heard or can make. Aside from no war lets all love. A new sucker is born every minute, not everyone knows the refined intellectual argument. Everybodies operating on thier own mind set.



The french were trying to make vietnam a colony, like the old style British colonies in India and South Africa. The Chinese and Russian communists were trying to help them retain thier independence, (some argue they always were through that whole cold war thing but who knows if anyones intentions were pure). After many defeats the French leave and we pick up where they left off.



Most people weren't against it, most people didn't distrust the govt. We've always been a minority.

Answer 2

The criticism of the war in Vietnam started out mainly as a conservative reaction to President Johnson’s policy of fighting for a limited purpose, a negotiated peace, rather than all out victory in Vietnam. Those critics included Senator Barry Goldwater, retired military men, and even some extreme members of the John Birch Society. These people were known as “hawks.” As the President escalated the war effort, and became a hawk himself, his chief critics became known as “doves” and included antiwar protesters, college students and faculty, liberal Democrats, and many other people in various walks of life who felt that the war was immoral, dragging on to no benefit for the US, and was causing increased casualty lists to mount. Many believed the US was fighting a war against the wishes of the majority of the Vietnamese people. These critics felt the war was a civil war in Vietnam between north and south and we had no business interfering. Some supported the communist effort in Vietnam and hoped for a defeat of the “imperialist capitalist” United States. Many Americans felt we were fighting a small, unimportant county, while the real enemy was China and the Soviet Union. There were many demonstrations against the war which took the form of sit ins in college and high school campuses, marches both for and against the war, and editorials written for and against the war. One of the most infamous demonstrations took place at Kent State University, 1970, when National Guard troops fired on Kent State students and protesters and four were killed and eleven were wounded. Nixon had been elected on a promise to Vietnamize the war, meaning more fighting would be turned over to the South Vietnamese army, and to start bringing home American troops. When the President ordered US troops into Cambodia and ordered more bombings, the result was a tremendous uproar at home with more marches and demonstrations. Congress reacted to the antiwar feeling and repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which gave the President the authority to send troops and fight the war in Vietnam. Our purpose in the war is debated to this day.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

we were told to stop comnissum........not true..it was a war built by the rich,for the rich,but not fought by the rich...

Answer 5

good question !!!! but i dont know