Reply #72: Absolutely correct - excellent post! [View All]

[T Town Jake]

In the final analysis, the hardcore anti-war protesters probably did more to help prolong the Vietnam war than they ever did to end it - Nixon was determined to show his "silent majority" that he couldn't be run out of a war by a bunch of people in the streets.

What finally ended the war was actually just inertia - a majority of the American people decided that if we weren't serious about winning it, we might as well wind it down.

As much as a few in this thread might want to delude themselves, the hard core anti-war position ("get out NOW!") was never supported by the vast majority of the American people during that time, period.