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Originally Posted by generic_hippie
wow
just fricken wow
I have never heard of a hippie making the claim that hippies ended the vietnam war.
America's military couldn't take the strain because the american public was thinking "enough with this war shit already".
Sure sounds like hippie thinking to me.
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Well...in America, I've run into many of those counter-culture geriatrics who think they ended the war by protesting and going to Neil Young concerts.
The war did not end because America was fed up with war. That's just Hollywood fairytale bullshit. Yes...America wanted out but the powers-that-be didn't pull out for that reason. They understood that the military couldn't take the strain any longer. They found an opening to get out and they took it. Plus, the communists in SE Asia grew so powerful that victory would have only come from nuking the place. (which of course is lunacy)
Would the war have continued into the 1980's if the public had been more supportive???? I'm not so sure about that. In fact, any military strategist/historian would tell you that the war would have been over by 1970 if America had fought the war like they did in WW2 (the "take no prisoners no matter what the cost" approach). However, the military-industrial complex didn't want a quick war. Just like in Iraq. There are more private contractors than there are troops. Did you think they want to end the occupation when there is billions of dollars in it for them to keep it going????
Sorry if I got a bit off track.