US EditionThe Vietnam and Gaza Wars Shattered Young Illusions About US Leaders
- The Vietnam War and the 2024 Gaza conflict caused widespread disillusionment among young Americans who once trusted U.S. Leadership.
- This disillusionment grew as students in the 1960s increasingly opposed Vietnam well before the general public, while young adults quickly opposed U.S. Arms shipments to Israel in 2024.
- Public protests peaked with millions opposing Vietnam by 1969, while a June 2024 poll showed 61 percent of Americans, and 77 percent under 30, opposed supporting Israel militarily.
- Leaders like Hubert Humphrey and Kamala Harris harmed their presidential bids by upholding war policies and ignoring young voters' antiwar sentiments despite repeated televised affirmations of support for presidents’ war actions.
- These wars revealed young citizens’ skepticism of political rhetoric and signaled enduring tensions between youthful idealism and government war policies with tragic, foreseeable consequences.
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Before Gaza, there was the US Genocide in Vietnam
Vancouver (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – I am writing this essay on the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Vietnam from the genocidal war that the United States inflicted on this Southeast Asian country (and Laos and Cambodia) for three decades. The story begins in 1887 with French colonialism established over most of Indochina. The primary goal, of course, was access to cheap resources and labor to enrich the elites back home. Afte…
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Eight years before the U.S.-backed regime in South Vietnam collapsed, I stood with high school friends at Manhattan’s Penn Station on the night of April 15, 1967, waiting for a train back to Washington after attending the era’s largest antiwar protest so far. An early edition of the next day’s New York Times arrived on … Continue reading "The Vietnam and Gaza Wars Shattered Young Illusions About US Leaders"
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Eight years before the U.S.-backed regime in South Vietnam collapsed, I stood with high school friends at Manhattan’s Penn Station on the night of April 15, 1967, waiting for a train back to Washington after attending the era’s largest antiwar protest so far. An early edition of the next day’s New York Times arrived on newsstands with a big headline at the top of the front page that said “100,000 Rally at U.N. Against Vietnam War.” I heard someo…
Vietnam & Gaza Wars Shattered Young Illusions on US Leaders
It took much less time for young US citizens to turn decisively against their government’s key role of arming Israel’s war on Gaza. The post Vietnam & Gaza Wars Shattered Young Illusions on US Leaders appeared first on Havana Times.
How the Vietnam and Gaza Wars Shattered Young Illusions About US Leaders, by Norman Solomon
ight years before the U.S.-backed regime in South Vietnam collapsed, I stood with high school friends at Manhattan’s Penn Station on the night of April 15, 1967, waiting for a train back to Washington after attending the era’s largest anti-war protest so far. An early edition of the next day’s New York Times arrived on newsstands with a big headline at the top of the front page that said “100,000 Rally at U.N. Against Vietnam War.” I heard someo…
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