Yeah, the entirety of the US war on Vietnam has gotten memory holed into being this big, unpopular mistake when the truth was that it was fairly popular at first
Lots of volunteers, lots of pro-war sentiment
Took the war dragging on for several years for opinion to start changing, but the two big nails in the coffin were the Tet Offensive and the release of the Pentagon Papers
The combination of the supposedly defeated North Vietnamese striking back with a vengeance and the public finding out that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a farce was what finally broke the majority of public support
Atrocities like the My Lai Massacre and Tiger Force didn’t do much to get people turned off, and neither did the Kent State shooting
Yeah, the entirety of the US war on Vietnam has gotten memory holed into being this big, unpopular mistake when the truth was that it was fairly popular at first
Lots of volunteers, lots of pro-war sentiment
Took the war dragging on for several years for opinion to start changing, but the two big nails in the coffin were the Tet Offensive and the release of the Pentagon Papers
The combination of the supposedly defeated North Vietnamese striking back with a vengeance and the public finding out that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a farce was what finally broke the majority of public support
Atrocities like the My Lai Massacre and Tiger Force didn’t do much to get people turned off, and neither did the Kent State shooting
It’s just like how Afghanistan is considered now, apparently all the libs are now against it from the start.
America’s propaganda machine is ridiculously powerful.