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If worked you mean the war went on for another 8 years after the protests started then yes.
People are free to protest. It doesn’t work but you are free to do it. What does work is voting, what does work is making sure your political leadership never gets a moment of happiness in public ever again.
It’s true that it didn’t change things immediately. The protests really made a difference when it affected the draft, leading to the end of the supply of soldiers.
The war went on on for another 8 years. That isn’t in any sense of the word an accomplishment. It took 7 years to go from Kennedy announcement to the moon it took 8 years to stop a war with flower power.
Just because some poor 18 year olds were sad about being drafted (rightfully so) didn’t end the war. In fact now that you are mentioning this I wonder if there were more deaths involved. Maybe having less ground troops made bombing from airplanes more likely to occur which added to civilian deaths in Cambodia and Vietnam.
So what do people want to do? You want to try the strategy that didn’t end or stop from happening the Vietnam or Iraq war with the Middle East one or do you want to try something different? I imagine the same performative protests will continue because it really isn’t about peace, it is about being seen in a certain light.
If worked you mean the war went on for another 8 years after the protests started then yes.
People are free to protest. It doesn’t work but you are free to do it. What does work is voting, what does work is making sure your political leadership never gets a moment of happiness in public ever again.
It’s true that it didn’t change things immediately. The protests really made a difference when it affected the draft, leading to the end of the supply of soldiers.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/two-days-in-october-student-antiwar-protests-and-backlash/
Gotcha it worked in the sense that it didn’t.
The war went on on for another 8 years. That isn’t in any sense of the word an accomplishment. It took 7 years to go from Kennedy announcement to the moon it took 8 years to stop a war with flower power.
Just because some poor 18 year olds were sad about being drafted (rightfully so) didn’t end the war. In fact now that you are mentioning this I wonder if there were more deaths involved. Maybe having less ground troops made bombing from airplanes more likely to occur which added to civilian deaths in Cambodia and Vietnam.
So what do people want to do? You want to try the strategy that didn’t end or stop from happening the Vietnam or Iraq war with the Middle East one or do you want to try something different? I imagine the same performative protests will continue because it really isn’t about peace, it is about being seen in a certain light.
The war ended when the US was forced to resort to volunteer troops, as a result of the protests.
Prove it.