Throughout the history of the United States, war has become a very questionable topic. The simple idea of war already exudes a barbaric resolve to conflict, but yet it still occurs and even gets support from the public most of the time. Out of all of the many wars the United States has been through, one of the few that stood out to be very unpopular among the public was the Vietnam War. Of course, war itself already contracts negative opinions from many people, but the Vietnam War, in particular, was one of the most hated by almost all people on the home front. It is a subject of question as to why this war, compared to previous ones the United States has been in, was often ridiculed instead of supported during its time. A few of the main …show more content…
People would expectantly believe that there would be no problem in going to war against a small country, but once they find out that it happens to be a much bigger problem and the dead body count of our country continues to rise higher and higher, then it becomes an issue. People do not want to keep on supporting a war that continuously racks up deaths, especially if it is a war that was initially thought out to be a cakewalk. The problems that the United States army faced in Vietnam is illustrated in No Cause Other Than Our Own Survival by Lt. Philip Caputo. “The discovery that the men we had scorned as peasant guerrillas were, in fact, a lethal determined enemy and the casualty lists that lengthened each week with nothing to show for the blood being spilled broke our early confidence. By autumn, what had begun as an adventurous expedition had turned into an exhausting, indecisive war of attrition in which we fought for no cause other than our own survival.” This quote from a Vietnam veteran briefly describes the ugly turn the battle took and how hard it was on the army. There was simply nothing glorious about the Vietnam War in its time. People felt as if it were a pointless struggle that could have been avoided, it appeared to have brought out the dark side of the United States, and it seemed more of a loss than a benefit in the long