THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Question
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prolonged war always causes soldiers to become cynical.
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they know that they are fighting for the right reasons.
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the things we claim to be fighting for are not really involved.
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they do not have enough equipment to carry out their mission.
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Detailed explanation-1: -"It is not enough to say ‘We must not wage war.’ It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but the positive affirmation of peace."
Detailed explanation-2: -King came to view U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia as little more than imperialism. Additionally, he believed that the Vietnam War diverted money and attention from domestic programs created to aid the Black poor. Furthermore, he said, “The war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home…
Detailed explanation-3: -If we do not stop our war against the people of Vietnam immediately, the world will be left with no other alternative than to see this as some horrible, clumsy, and deadly game we have decided to play. The world now demands a maturity of America that we may not be able to achieve.
Detailed explanation-4: -Declaring “my conscience leaves me no other choice, ” King described the war’s deleterious effects on both America’s poor and Vietnamese peasants and insisted that it was morally imperative for the United States to take radical steps to halt the war through nonviolent means (King, “Beyond Vietnam, ” 139).