Why were people opposing the Vietnam War?What reasons were there?

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war, vietnam, usa, america kennedy

Answer 1

There were a lot of reasons people didn't like it.  There was a draft, there were a lot of casualties, there was a lot of mismanagement, and misinformation.

However, I think one of the really big factors was because it was the first "televised" war.  Everyone could see that sometimes the bombs hit children.  Everyone saw the caskets coming off the planes.  People could see what the war was really like, and I think that made it very unpopular.

Answer 2

Nobody had a clue as to what the War was all about..The official pose was to 'Stop the Spread of Communism'..Viet Nam was far too remote for the average American to get on board with that 'Reason'..At least in Iraq, there is the OIL..and the very real spread of Jihadism to evaluate..Right or Wrong?..I don't have a clue.

Answer 3

Because it was useless war.  LBJ had manipulated the American public with the Gulf of Tonkin incident. The draft was another thing that fanned the flames of opposition.

Answer 4

They were opposing the war in Vietnam because it was a war we couldn't win. The war was fought between the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and its communist allies and the US-supported Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). It concluded with the withdrawal of the United States from active combat, the dissolution of South Vietnam, and the failure of United States foreign policy in Vietnam.[6][7]

On April 30, 1975, the capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, fell to the communist forces of North Vietnam, effectively ending the war. Over 1.4 million military personnel were killed in the war (of which 6 percent were members of the United States armed forces).

Protesters thought the war was a tragic, useless loss of life.