Explain and discuss the significance of the Vietnam Syndrome. Relate the Vietnam Syndrome to a current or recent foreign policy situation. Does this concept help to explain public opinion concerning the current or recent situation? Why or why not?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers should describe the Vietnam Syndrome as the American public’s reaction to casualties, news coverage, a corrupt administration, and the long war in Vietnam. Answers should explain that the Vietnam Syndrome is the public’s general belief that the United States should not get involved militarily in global affairs unless it is absolutely necessary. Current examples that could be included in answers as public opinion constraints on foreign policy and military interventions are Haiti and Kosovo in the 1990s and Iraq in 2003 to 2004.
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