I've heard it was because of some lie, but somebody please elaborate and explain!.
And about the protesters, did they think about how it would affect the South vietnamese when the U!.S!. leaves them!?
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Position:Home>History> What caused the U.S. to pull out of Vietnam?Question: What caused the U!.S!. to pull out of Vietnam!? I've heard it was because of some lie, but somebody please elaborate and explain!.
And about the protesters, did they think about how it would affect the South vietnamese when the U!.S!. leaves them!? Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I grew up in the Army during the Vietnam era and after!. I was born the day my father stepped of the boat with his unit into Vietnam!. Here is what I know from the men who stayed in the Army after we lost!. We quit and didn't have the guts to do what had to be done!. When you place rules of engagement on soldiers and and not let them take the fight to the enemy your going to lose!. When you let the media and the press dictate the actions of the soldiers you send to fight you are going to lose!. When you don't send beans, bullets and bandaids you are you are going to lose!. When you lose a War you are not a hero, you are just a loser and a failure!. They don't honer you they just put names of the dead on a black wall of shame You have nothing to be proud of , you only survive!. What you leave behind is the greatest shame!. You leave those you have promised hope and freedom with out hope and slavery!. Then you push helicopters into the sea!. If you are strong enough soldier you stay and work your *** off to get to a position so it never ever happens again!. You become a General or a Criminal Investigator and get rid of the son-of bitches who caused the you to lose and make the sacrifice made by you and others worthless!. You may even run for President, so your children will never have to leave with the shame of losing a war!. You always want to win!. Only the cowards who ran away and hid and cried for their mommy want to run away and lose again!. Www@QuestionHome@Com "Newly elected President Richard M!. Nixon declared in 1969 that he would continue the American involvement in the Vietnam War in order to end the conflict and secure "peace with honor" for the United States and for its ally, South Vietnam!. Unfortunately, Communist North Vietnam's leaders, believing that time was on their side, steadfastly refused to negotiate seriously!. Indeed, in March 1972 they attempted to bypass negotiations altogether with a full-scale invasion of the South!. Called the Easter Offensive by the United States, the invasion at first appeared to succeed!. By late summer, however, Nixon's massive application of American air power blunted the offensive!. At this point, the North Vietnamese began to negotiate in earnest!." "A little over 2 years later, 30 North Vietnamese divisions conquered the South and restored peace in Vietnam!. The American commitment to defend South Vietnam, described as unequivocal by Nixon and Kissinger, had been vitiated by the Watergate scandal and Nixon's subsequent resignation!. By that time, the Paris Accords seemed memorable only as the vehicle on which the United States rode out of Southeast Asia!." To answer your Q about the protesters: no, I don't think they were thinking about anyone but the US, honestly!. Vietnam (South) went into recession after the US pulled out, because they were dependent on the US' support!. I think the protesters were in the hippie phase of "love not war", and they saw it was over 10yrs, and they were losing a LOT of loved ones, and there was a lot of screwed up stuff going on over there!. i!.e!. chemical warfare, massacres, and so on!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I know it's not exactly elaborate (I'm not doing your homework for you, so figure out the rest yourself), but the war itself was going on for way too long!. People were getting tired of it!. And chances are the protesters didn't consider it!. They were more anti-war than anti-communism, and if they did consider it, chances are they wanted the U!.S!. to help peacefully, which was not going to happen (it never really did, at least not in Asia)!. It was a bit too much trouble to go to and too many lives were lost for a cause over which the U!.S!., in retrospect (considering how little the Korean War helped), had little control at the time!.Www@QuestionHome@Com What ended the war was Congress stopped funding it!. They finally said enough was enough and also the on going riots in most major cities, the elections where many were up for re election, and former president Nixon getting the North Vietnam to agree to talk with Mr!. Kissenger in Paris with the help of other countries!.Www@QuestionHome@Com War weariness!. Americans historically have a limit of about two or three years at most they'll tolerate a war before it loses public support!. That makes counter-insurgency operations on any kind of large scale politically almost impossible, and our enemies know that!. There was also a huge problem with the 1968 Tet offensive!. It destroyed the Viet Cong as a fighting force, and it was a huge tactical loss for the NVA!. But the major news networks back home got their analysis wrong, and they hate to reassess, so the media at home continued the fiction of a US defeat, turning it into a real defeat at the strategic level and compounding the problems of war-weariness!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Dollars & cents they couldnt really afford to keep on fighting as it was sending their budget into meltdown as its doing at the moment with the US war in Iraq & Afghanistan 2 trillion dollars already & countingWww@QuestionHome@Com |