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Vietnam: Doves vs Hawks

What is dove? What is hawk? What they think about Vietnam war throughout the course of the war

Doves

Definition

A person who opposed the Vietnam war and believed that the United States should withdraw from it.

Doves were americans who thought that the war was pointless.

D- Desire for peace.

O- Opposition for military action.

V- Voice in the wilderness.

E- Eyes set on peace.

Doves

Hawks

Definition

Favoring war in a debate over whether to go to war, or whether to continue or escalate an existing war.

H- Horror of community control.

A- Answered call of duty.

W- war is the answer.

K- Knights of Democracy

Hawks

1966

Decision: Dove or Hawk?

In favor of war: 47%

Against the idea: 26%

No comment: 27%

Almost half U.S. adults favor war

1966

Time changes

Proportion support war decrease

Is Vietnam War a mistake?

- 1965: Yes 24%, no 61%

- 1966: Yes 35%, no 48%

- 1967: Yes 46%, no 44%

- 1968: Yes 54%, no 37%

- 1969: Yes 58%, no 32%

- 1970: Yes 56%, no 36%

- 1971: Yes 59%, no 28%

- 1973: Yes 60%, no 29%

Changes

War is no more

Who was right?

141 Billion Dollars was spent over 14 years

- 60,000 personnel were lost missing.

- Does not help stopping the spread of communism, communism did not spread afterward.

Doves were right: Vietnam War was pointless

End of war

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