Political Consequences Of The Vietnam War
All American troops, together with war prisoners, allied military returned home, and the four-nation international control commission was established to ensure peace. Overall, the Vietnam War brought severe political, economic, and social consequences.
The principal political consequences, was the low credibility and faith to the government, the lack of respected to public institutions.
The obvious economical consequence let the United States analyze better the engaging in future conflicts. The estimated cost of the Vietnam War was 167 billion dollars. Unwilling to raise taxes to pay for the war, President Johnson unleashed a cycle of inflation, and mounting federal debt that severely damages the U.S. economy, deteriorated the living standards
from 1960 to 1990.
Another consequence that gradually emerged was the behavior of the citizens against the veterans, they were not treated as heroes, some of them were denigrated, and most of them were ignored. Even more three quarters of a million became homeless, the rest of them fall in the uneducated, poor badly category. The biggest social consequence was the facts of more veterans have committed suicide than died in the war itself.
After almost a quarter of a century after the Vietnam War ended, the ashes of war still prevail in the minds of Americans. If our current politicians and leaders do not learn from the past, we can find ourselves as a nation fighting in more unwanted wars and counting more unnecessary victims. Current resentment towards the government, lack of benefits for our veterans, and the vast public mistrust all allude to ripe conditions that existed during the Vietnam War. Americans can use the past to learn from and shape the way America engages in all future conflicts.
The principal political consequences, was the low credibility and faith to the government, the lack of respected to public institutions.
The obvious economical consequence let the United States analyze better the engaging in future conflicts. The estimated cost of the Vietnam War was 167 billion dollars. Unwilling to raise taxes to pay for the war, President Johnson unleashed a cycle of inflation, and mounting federal debt that severely damages the U.S. economy, deteriorated the living standards
from 1960 to 1990.
Another consequence that gradually emerged was the behavior of the citizens against the veterans, they were not treated as heroes, some of them were denigrated, and most of them were ignored. Even more three quarters of a million became homeless, the rest of them fall in the uneducated, poor badly category. The biggest social consequence was the facts of more veterans have committed suicide than died in the war itself.
After almost a quarter of a century after the Vietnam War ended, the ashes of war still prevail in the minds of Americans. If our current politicians and leaders do not learn from the past, we can find ourselves as a nation fighting in more unwanted wars and counting more unnecessary victims. Current resentment towards the government, lack of benefits for our veterans, and the vast public mistrust all allude to ripe conditions that existed during the Vietnam War. Americans can use the past to learn from and shape the way America engages in all future conflicts.