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[Buffalobiian]

The change during/after Vietnam is exceedingly easy to explain: The USA lost the war. History has proven time after time that the loser of a war is always wrong and to blame for all the suffering. It doesn't even matter who started it all or for what reasons. No doubt that was bitter medicine for the Americans after all the wars they had won, especially WWII.

America losing the war doesn't explain why views changed during the war (which actually resulted in the US pulling out). Media coverage of the violence was what drove American civilians to ask "Why are we even there? What are we doing?".

[Kraco]

America losing the war doesn't explain why views changed during the war (which actually resulted in the US pulling out). Media coverage of the violence was what drove American civilians to ask "Why are we even there? What are we doing?".

Isn't that losing the war even before all the shooting had ended? It's not like a war would end only when one side has no bullets or soldiers left. It ends when one side gives up. In Vietnam's case, Americans did.