Pros And Cons Of The Vietnam War

During the United States crisis against the Soviet Union; The Vietnam War in that era was one of the worst, war case, scenarios fueled by the Cold War. With it being one of the most hated and leading the most negative opinions, taking the people’s lives into account and how it did not have any real beneficial gain; it was a war not worth fighting. It was overall unnecessary because of its loss of life and how it made the U.S seem weak against communism. In theory, the Vietnam War was unwinnable, people despised all the actions taken during the war, and it was not worth the lives that were sent to fight it. With all this in knowledge, I believe the war was something the U.S could not win. The United States has always gone back to look

In order for the U.S to see that the Vietnam War was unwinnable, they had to witness the people protest and see that the violence provided by it was something the American people would not tolerate. Since television was now a common luxury in most houses when families were shown imagery of the kind of war that was happening everyone was outraged and disgusted. They were disgusted by the horrific images shown by the war and its media. Once Americans were “bombarded by horrific images of the war on their television...turned against the war as well”. People found it hard to believe that after all attempts and decisions of past Presidents to not to go to war after WW2, they somehow manage to cause another crisis because of overwhelming communism and troops. The war is unwinnable because now they have the U.S’s people against it and want a peaceful resolution compared to when the war wasn't common knowledge to the people. If it was kept more of a small scale battle it wouldn't be attacked by multiple enemies at the same time and this is what mostly caused failure in winning the Vietnam War. Another way the people were one of the reasons the U.S would lose the war would be because once people heard of the My Lai Massacre everyone one went berserk and started sprouting hatred towards the War. The My Lai Massacre was 400 Vietnamese families killed by U.S soldiers during a false call, where there were supposedly Viet Cong’s hiding in the village. Just following orders, the soldiers decided to murder all 400 plus villagers living there without thinking twice. This led to one of the “largest anti-war demonstration”, where more than 250,000 Americans peacefully protested for the withdrawal of all troops from Vietnam. This showed that all actions taken to win the war were wrong and that it’s main