How did the Vietnam war split the nation so deeply?
When the US took over the war when the French realized they couldn’t win the war, most Americans didn’t understand the history of the war. It became a very political issue in that (my opinion) it was a war that we should not have gotten involved in. But we did, and for the reason that some people beleived in “The Domino Effect” that proved to be wrong. Very much like Iraq was a threat to the US.
Twenty-five years after the fall of Saigon, most Americans still feel that their country’s involvement in the Vietnam War was a bad idea, according to a CBS News/New York Times Poll. But at the same time, Americans are divided in their moral judgments; the percentage who consider it a noble cause is equal to that deeming it wrong and immoral. Six in 10 Americans think that the United States should have stayed out of the conflict in Vietnam. More from: http://www.cbsnews.com/…/main189880.
