[Peace-discuss] Ending imperial war

[Ricky Baldwin]

I think the answer lies in your last paragraph.

Ricky



"Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn

--- On Tue, 3/30/10, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:

From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Ending imperial war
To: "peace discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 3:38 AM

Can Obama be forced to do as well as Nixon?

On January 15, 1973, US President Richard Nixon announced the suspension of all offensive actions against North Vietnam, to be followed by a unilateral withdrawal of all U.S. troops. The Paris Peace Accords on "Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam" were signed on January 27, officially ending direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The agreement called for the withdrawal of all U.S. personnel and an exchange of prisoners of war. Within South Vietnam, a cease-fire was declared (to be overseen by a multi-national, 1,160-man International Control Commission force) and both ARVN and PAVN/NLF forces would remain in control of the areas they then occupied, effectively partitioning South Vietnam.

The signing of the Accords was the main motivation for the awarding of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger and to leading North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho. A separate cease-fire had been installed in Laos in February. Five days before the signing of the agreement in Paris, ex-president Lyndon Johnson died. The first U.S. prisoners of war were released by North Vietnam on February 11, and all U.S. military personnel were ordered to leave South Vietnam by March 29.

The US war against South Vietnam ended for three principal reasons:

[1] the resistance of the Vietnamese people to invasion and occupation;

[2] the refusal of the American conscript army to continue to fight; and

[3] the revulsion of the US public for the war.

By 1969 about 70% of the US public had come to regard the war as "fundamentally wrong and immoral," not "a mistake," largely as a result of the impact of student protest on general consciousness. And that mass opposition compelled the business community and then the government to stop the escalation of the war.


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