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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alighieri who wrote (150418)	8/27/2002 8:47:12 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1585830

For whichever reason the support faltered (and I would take objection to your statement above, the support faltered among the youth of this country who began to see the war as immoral), the Vietnam war demonstrated to the US that you can actually lose a war that has domestic opposition. I was there; I was part of that "youth". Initially, there was support for the war effort. But when no apparent progress was made, the leadership would not support the military's efforts, and the body count kept rising, we lost the will to win the war. Most of those who know (Colin Powell, for example) believe that had we had appropropriate support from the leadership the war would have been won. It wasn't about there "not being support for the war". The support dried up when the leadership failed to support it.