How America Lost The War In Vi

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the president’s justifications for escalation. The war, they charged, was a civil war between the North and South Vietnamese, and not an effort by Soviet and Chinese communists to expand. Antiwar protests erupted across the nation, concentrated in college campuses. In the April of 1967, more than 300,000 people attended a demonstration in New York City. Later that year more radical demonstrations arose as antiwar radicals besieged a draft center in Oakland, California.
Such strong opposition amongst the public was echoed by objection to the war in the political world. Public protesting forced congressmen to reexamine the justice of the war, and politicians such as Senator William Fulbright were sharply critical of America’s policy. By 1967, even Defense Secretary Robert McNamara opposed President Johnson’s course of escalation. Although doves were a prominent minority, the adversary force they created was enough to undermine the will of the government to continue fighting. ...

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