Okay, while the Vietnam war was going, I here that many people over there didn't want us there. And a lot of people over here were having anti-war protests and trying to pull our military out, because they thought we had no business being there. So my question for all of you out there, did anyone in Vietnam realize many U.S. citizens didn't even want our government interfering over there?
Anyone? Yes. The average Vietnamese person? That's much harder to assess.
The North Vietnamese received backing from the Chinese, among others, who, by the 1960s after the sino soviet split, were savy political operators and participants in the global media dialog in their own right.
You have probably seen the propaganda photos shot of Jane Fonda viewing North Vietnamese AA guns and encountered the (predominantly right wing) outrage in the United States about the same. Those photos were shot and the American right angered by them specifically because the North used them as a political tool to undermine American political support for the war. Now we can argue about the effectiveness of that tool and the value of the war itself, but the fact that they were shot at all demonstrates that, at least in the military and political elite, there was awareness of the political situation in the US.
Is the assumption that many Americans didn't want our military in Vietnam true? I was under the impression that the "silent majority" is what allowed Nixon to keep us in Vietnam.
hey guys, I am Vietnamese and so I confirm that we knew Americans didn't want US Army participating in Vietnam war. We realized that all people want peace and that war was just a political issue. There were many secret things hiddened behind the political wall that we have never know, for sure. Here I just want to say Vietnamese love peace.