I want to say yes but everything else tells me no

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
    hexbear
    67
    2 months ago

    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

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      55
      2 months ago

      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.