Why did people opose the vietnam war?
The American people were lied to. Their leaders (Eisenhower on) made agreements which had no buy in from the American people. When those agreements were acted upon, Americans found they were being drafted to fight a war they didn’t understand, against and for peoples they didn’t know, and for reasons their leaders could not articulate in any meaningful way. As our commitments went up, our casualties increased. The South Vietnamese government never had support of their people and their armed forces lacked the capacity to aggressively fight a war against their communist foes. Americans did most of the fighting and was burdened with most of the cost. Eventually Americans turned against the war because they were never told the real reasons for the war, their returning soldiers lacked community support to deal with the burdens of fighting in war, and the nation didn’t have the strategy to win such a war.
