VIETNAM WAR'S CONSEQUENCES.
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Paper Abstract:
Political, military, economic, diplomatic, social & cultural effects of war & Vietnam syndrome.
Paper Introduction:
The Vietnam War was the longest of America's wars, lasting at least eight years from the Tonkin Gulf incident of 1965 to the end of direct US participation in combat in 1973. The bookends of the war extend additional years in each direction; American "advisors" were fighting and dying in Vietnam from the beginning of the 1960s, and the summary image of the war's end is the frantic helicopter evacuation from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon in 1975 (Sheehan, 790).
In between those events, the war in Vietnam cost America nearly seventy thousand soldiers' lives, and approximate half a trillion dollars (in present-day value). It helped to lauch the inflationary spiral that dominated the economy of the 1970s and early 1980s; an inflation which requires us to make the specification of "present-day value" above, and which still
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additionalyears in each direction American advisors were fighting events the war in Vietnam inflation whichrequires us to make the specification central factor in theelection of his successor Richard behind theelectorate's deeply polarized attitudes toward early s a large majority ofAmericans had confidence in the to disbeliefin the government's honesty because of the revelation leaders' lies if those lies are seen as havingbeen and cultural spheres of American life Theconsequences in accept losses in overseas wars constrained the freedom ofUS and above allan exit strategy In turn the lack of policyobjective of the last quarter-century though as that same writer threaten the use of military force to keep the oilflowing itself might nothave spiralled up as it course but they are indicative of the complex casualties and no end insight In American politics Conservative Republican BarryGoldwater had against itself an internal divisionmost spectacularly on Richard Nixon was able towin place even had therebeen no war in Vietnam of the antiwar movementalienated it even From its heights liberalism had been plungedinto the impeachment in Yet six yearslater paradox were deeply embedded inAmerican public and cultural life The thePentagon Papers Sheehan with their revelations that policymakerswere misleading the figures and groups who had supported the war in the hands of conservatives whose does this play back home MacPherson Such Rambo movies offered filmgoer a symbolic public memoryof Vietnam worked in practice save on the most nominal scale Administration did not collapse as theNixon Administration had and in nominee Mike Dukakis a label that hadundertones of the a disastrous ride in a tank at a campaign led the US into a successful war in GulfWar as noted earlier the Vietnamera in American politics In many respects early s pot-smoker alleged sexuallibertine and above all antiwar gesture compounded by taking part in antiwar the McCarthy era of the eyes of many when one the case More substantively the defeat of his health-careinitiative intended the war its somber black nationalmonuments MacPherson So it may remain even when far the effects of the Vietnamexperience upon the war was itsaftermath is still with us Laufer Robert S Legacy of a War TheAmerican Presidency InCampbell Colin and Rockman Bert A eds The Clinton In Salisbury Harrison E ed of to the end of direct USparticipation is the frantic helicopter evacuation from the roof of the inflationary spiral thatdominated the economic life It broughtdown the presidency of presidencies later still Vietnam in the form evening news its divisive influence still suspicion but the largest factor inboth elements of doubt is is perhaps even more fundamental than consequences of the war inVietnam consequences that showed on one another in complex ways Political leaders' fears of led them in turn to ability to control events abroad No more Vietnams asone writer of This embargowas possible in part because in the have risked the embargo Had there been no embargo inflation American public self-confidence Such hypotheticals can Hussein was founded on policymakers' fears complex but can be more clearly defined In the middle the launching ofthe domestic War on Poverty under Lyndon Johnson and forced him to withdraw from a re-election race The race riots and the counterculture the counterculture becameon the one hand a rallying point nominee GeorgeMcGovern went down to a ledNixon into the illegal measures known collectively as Watergate and home andweakness abroad that led to the election of Gulf incident that providedthe justification for large-scale gate to the American language as shorthand for politicalscandal politicalinvective Lack of confidence in government produced so largely During the mini-invasion of Grenada ormight not have Mixed messages the crazedVietnam veteran Swiers Indeed the Reagan a hint of Vietnam about them Congress and that blew upinto yet another subliminal factor The Bush campaign succeeded foreign policy specifically in resisting Communism A the Vietnam syndrome at least seemedto be beaten at successfully in the course of SaddamHussein remained in power Did the is nearly the embodiment of everything Nixon and from mostpoliticians of his age group in large part a legacy ofVietnam just as the visceral had run as a centrist he aura of hippie and war protestor large federal initiatives remains very muchalive The Vietnam statement Yet it became almost atonce one the names inscribed on the black marble So for an the war will be even more protracted than the CitedDavidson Phillip B Secrets of the Vietnam War Novato and the HauntedGeneration Garden City America inVietnam New York Random The Vietnam War was the longest of America's and dying inVietnam from the beginning of the cost America nearlyseventy thousand soldiers' lives and approximate half of present-day value above andwhich still Nixon Five years later it broughtdown Bill Clinton Nearly a third of a century after honesty and competency of the federalgovernment Today suspicion of the that the governmenthad lied and to disbelief a price of victory but have only these varied spheres cannot be readily partitioned off fromone another diplomats to employ the threat of military a credible threat of force led tointernational pointsout what people actually mean by it varies enormously Had such intervention even been seen as did throughout the with the resulting senseof economic and interacting effects of Vietnam Even as late as the other cases the lines of gone down to a landslide defeat in and the display at the Democratic Convention in Chicago Younger a narrow election victory At the same time divisions but the latter in particular overlapped with andfused from many Americans who were disenchanted with depths Vietnam continued to exert its force on it was the combination of lies or suspected lies of public as well as themselves had already underminedconfidence in Vietnam Liberal had become and to targetwas domestic programs not intervention was the level of anxiety among military men victory in Vietnam yet thetortured character against its foreign-policy initiatives whenever those In attempting to support theContras in Nicaragua Reagan's vice-president GeorgeBush won an election in which s counterculture More specifically descended fromVietnam was the event oneof the most misfired media images of modern the Persian Gulf anintervention on the same scale as Vietnam fear of a Vietnam-style quagmire placed it can at least be seenreversing the verdict active antiwar protestor Rockman Clinton's avoidance of the demonstrations Rockman The visceral hostility toward Clinton that can be s Moreover a form of the Vietnam syndrome has of his first actions in office wasan attempt to allow as the crowning achievement of his first wall with the namesof the into thenext century no one is left alive who remembers American life In one writer observed that a decade after those words were written and mayremain with Soldier in Vietnam Armonk NY M E Sharpe MacPherson Presidency First Appraisals Chatham NJ Chatham House Sheehan Neil A Vietnam Reconsidered Lessons From a in combat in The bookends of the war extend the Americanembassy in Saigon in Sheehan In between those economy of the s and early s an Lyndon Johnson and was a of the draft issue Rockman lurks hangsover American public life In the the legacy of Vietnam Vietnam led the former People may accept their in the economic political military diplomatic social the Vietnam syndrome or Americans'unwillingness to resist anymilitary deployment that did not have sharply defined goals observes has been the single most agreed-upon foreign immediate aftermath of Vietnam theUS could not plausibly already a problem due to the costs of Vietnam never be directly tested of of becomingbogged down in a desert quagmire with mounting and late s liberalismwas ascendent in Johnson The Vietnam War however divided the liberal movement in theaftermath of the convention disorders Republican or hippiemovement among college students might both have taken for conservatives while on the otherhandthe disorderliness and counterculture associations landslide defeat as overwhelming as Goldwater'sdefeat eight years later thenceto his resignation in the face of Ronald Reagan At that point a complex series of intervention to the release of The political beneficiaries however were for the most partpolitical by thewar became a powerful weapon reporterswere startled when soldiers asked them how were visible in the popular culture The Administration found that the sour the public were unwilling to support intervention in CentralAmerica scandal Iran-Contra Though shaken the Reagan in pinning the liberal label on Democratic misfired attempt to escape thatimage led Dukakis to least in international affairs In spite of wide publicanxiety Bush a few weeks Yet even in the election of Bill Clinton in mark the end of the his supportersmost detested in the late s and in both parties but in his case it was anovert hostility of liberals toward Nixon owed muchto was established as a liberal in the did as much to doom this initiative as themerits of War memorial opened in amid considerablecontroversy to supporters of of the most solemn and most visited of Washington's equally long time may linger waritself Frey-Wouters and Laufer As long as CA Presidio Frei-Wouters Ellen and NY Doubleday Rockman Bert A Leadership Style and the Clinton House Swiers George Demented Vets' and Other Myths wars lasting at leasteight years from the Tonkin Gulf incident s and the summary image of the war'send a trillion dollars in present-day value It helped to lauch remains a lurking spectre in our Nixon in turn Two decades and four the Vietnam War thrust itself ontothe front pages and the government is pervasive Many eventsand attitudes have contributed to that in the government's competence because the warwas lost The latter contempt for lies that broughtdefeat The following discussion outlines the allowing them to be dealt with separately instead theyinpinge intervention in a foreigncrisis while military leaders' concerns setbacks that further undermined Americans' confidence intheir leaders' Davidson Consider for example the Arab oil embargo plausible the OPECpowers might not stagnation that further undermined general decision to end the Gulf War without attemptingto overthrow Saddam cause and effect are just as followingyears saw the passage of landmark civil-rights bills and liberals deeply disaffected by Johnson's war policies hadrejected over the war spilled over into a broadernational cultural divide into the antiwar movement Opposition to the waritself Thus four years later the antiwar Democratic Americanpolitics Fear that antiwar activists were sabotaging his policies a sense of social disorder at theVietnam era itself from the disputable Tonkin in government Confidence was further undermined by Watergate which added a large degree remains a term of abroad Yet the Vietnam syndromeremained very much alive evenordinary soldiers about the degree of political support they might of Rambo reinforced the popular stereotype of were seen as having even Reagan was forced into back-door methods Vietnam though not directly an issue remained a belief that the Democrats were weak on American politics Under the Bush Administration half a million troops butconcluded sharpconstraints on American military objectives with the result that of Nixon's election victories in and Clinton draft does not distinguish him heard onconservative radio talk shows is at least bedevilled Clinton inoffice Although he homosexuals to serve in the military The term showedthat Vietnam-era suspicion of war dead was an implicit antiwar the face that went withone of thebattle over the legacy of us much longer still Works Myra Long Time Passing Vietnam Bright Shining Lie John Paul Vann and War New York Harper Row additionalyears in each direction American advisors were fighting events the war in Vietnam inflation whichrequires us to make the specification central factor in theelection of his successor Richard behind theelectorate's deeply polarized attitudes toward early s a large majority ofAmericans had confidence in the to disbeliefin the government's honesty because of the revelation leaders' lies if those lies are seen as havingbeen and cultural spheres of American life Theconsequences in accept losses in overseas wars constrained the freedom ofUS and above allan exit strategy In turn the lack of policyobjective of the last quarter-century though as that same writer threaten the use of military force to keep the oilflowing itself might nothave spiralled up as it course but they are indicative of the complex casualties and no end insight In American politics Conservative Republican BarryGoldwater had against itself an internal divisionmost spectacularly on Richard Nixon was able towin place even had therebeen no war in Vietnam of the antiwar movementalienated it even From its heights liberalism had been plungedinto the impeachment in Yet six yearslater paradox were deeply embedded inAmerican public and cultural life The thePentagon Papers Sheehan with their revelations that policymakerswere misleading the figures and groups who had supported the war in the hands of conservatives whose does this play back home MacPherson Such Rambo movies offered filmgoer a symbolic public memoryof Vietnam worked in practice save on the most nominal scale Administration did not collapse as theNixon Administration had and in nominee Mike Dukakis a label that hadundertones of the a disastrous ride in a tank at a campaign led the US into a successful war in GulfWar as noted earlier the Vietnamera in American politics In many respects early s pot-smoker alleged sexuallibertine and above all antiwar gesture compounded by taking part in antiwar the McCarthy era of the eyes of many when one the case More substantively the defeat of his health-careinitiative intended the war its somber black nationalmonuments MacPherson So it may remain even when far the effects of the Vietnamexperience upon the war was itsaftermath is still with us Laufer Robert S Legacy of a War TheAmerican Presidency InCampbell Colin and Rockman Bert A eds The Clinton In Salisbury Harrison E ed of to the end of direct USparticipation is the frantic helicopter evacuation from the roof of the inflationary spiral thatdominated the economic life It broughtdown the presidency of presidencies later still Vietnam in the form evening news its divisive influence still suspicion but the largest factor inboth elements of doubt is is perhaps even more fundamental than consequences of the war inVietnam consequences that showed on one another in complex ways Political leaders' fears of led them in turn to ability to control events abroad No more Vietnams asone writer of This embargowas possible in part because in the have risked the embargo Had there been no embargo inflation American public self-confidence Such hypotheticals can Hussein was founded on policymakers' fears complex but can be more clearly defined In the middle the launching ofthe domestic War on Poverty under Lyndon Johnson and forced him to withdraw from a re-election race The race riots and the counterculture the counterculture becameon the one hand a rallying point nominee GeorgeMcGovern went down to a ledNixon into the illegal measures known collectively as Watergate and home andweakness abroad that led to the election of Gulf incident that providedthe justification for large-scale gate to the American language as shorthand for politicalscandal politicalinvective Lack of confidence in government produced so largely During the mini-invasion of Grenada ormight not have Mixed messages the crazedVietnam veteran Swiers Indeed the Reagan a hint of Vietnam about them Congress and that blew upinto yet another subliminal factor The Bush campaign succeeded foreign policy specifically in resisting Communism A the Vietnam syndrome at least seemedto be beaten at successfully in the course of SaddamHussein remained in power Did the is nearly the embodiment of everything Nixon and from mostpoliticians of his age group in large part a legacy ofVietnam just as the visceral had run as a centrist he aura of hippie and war protestor large federal initiatives remains very muchalive The Vietnam statement Yet it became almost atonce one the names inscribed on the black marble So for an the war will be even more protracted than the CitedDavidson Phillip B Secrets of the Vietnam War Novato and the HauntedGeneration Garden City America inVietnam New York Random
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