LabourJersey
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« on: April 24, 2023, 07:05:50 PM » |
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Many Americans, including many Democrats, still supported the Vietnam War in January 1968. People were certainly concerned about the high body counts, and fearful for their own relatives in Vietnam, but ultimately felt that it was a war worth fighting and a war that was supposed to be over soon (Westmoreland apparently was convinced in 1967 that it would be over by 1969).
The dam of support started to break with the Tet Offensive, and even then people did support the war and wanted it won quickly and with minimal American deaths (a reason why Nixon won).
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