Reply #52: to say that the anti-war movement had little to do with [View All]

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ending the Vietnam War is revisionist history--even Henry Kissinger has acknowledged that the anti-war movement was pivotal in raising the consciousness of the country and escalating a debate on why we were in Vietnam. Of course the mounting casualties had a major effect as well but the anti-war movement sowed the seeds and was as influential as the civil rights movement was in bringing about necessary change in US policy.