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Vietnam Syndrome
In US politics, the "Vietnam Syndrome" is the public aversion to American overseas military involvements, following the domestic controversy over the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975. Since the early 1980s, the combination of a public opinion apparently biased against war, a less interventionist US foreign policy, and a relative absence of American wars and military "Vietnam paralysis" are all the perceived results of this public malaise.
==Failure in Vietnam==
In the domestic debate over the reasons the United States was unable to defeat North Vietnamese forces and win over the population there during the War in Vietnam, conservative thinkers and many in the US military argued that the US had sufficient resources but that Americans themselves had undermined the war effort. In a famous article in ''Commentary'', “Making the World Safe for Communism,” journalist Norman Podhoretz complained:
“Do we lack power? … Certainly not if power is measured in brute terms of economic, technological, and military capacity. By those standards, we are still the most powerful country in the world… The issue boils down in the end, then, to the question of will.”
Thereafter the idea of "Vietnam syndrome" proliferated in the press and policy circles as a way of talking about why the US, one of the world's superpowers, had been humiliated by self-imposed defeat in Vietnam. As many conservatives like Podhoretz saw it:
"…a fickle and spineless public, an unpatriotic anti-war movement and undisciplined soldiers had ashamed the nation by their unwillingness or inability to do what was necessary to destroy North Vietnam. The world was a dangerous place, they warned, and any retreat or compromise was an invitation to Communists and other wicked people out to destroy American supremacy and, by extension, the American way of life."
In time the phrase "Vietnam syndrome" also came into use as a shorthand for the idea that Americans were worried they would never win a war again, and that the nation was in utter decline.
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