Vietnam War Lessons Learned

The greatest lessons of the Vietnam war was America not letting the president overexert his power and we also learned that we should focus on things happening in our country before we go and pry in other country’s business, because these are the things the U.S. did not do and so many people lost so much respect in the government and we had so many internal problems in the U.S at the time of the Vietnam war and after the fact. The Vietnam war taught us to not let the president have too much power because in Vietnam most of America hated the war and each president just kept getting us in deeper. Like Reagan said "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.” (Reagan). The President during Vietnam was not thinking of what was best for the U.S as a whole and when America starts falling apart because of riots and protests all for a war then you know something isn’t right. Most of the United

Otherwise we are tearing our country apart, and not only the people at war but our society will fall apart.“One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down in the battle of Vietnam.”(king Jr.) This quote explains this lesson well because it states that while people were dying on the battlefield for another country our society was falling apart piece by piece, we had so many problems at this time in America like racism, the credibility gap and the rebellion and yet we chose to go fight a war. I get that we were just trying to be proactive and think of our country’s future but not at the risk of our country’s society. It’s kind of like when people say “we will cross that bridge when we come to it”(Taylor), we need to worry about the now and worry about the future