George Herring’s essay “The Legacy of Vietnam” is a fair portrait of one of the most notorious wars in the United States history – the Vietnam War. The essay starts with enormous figures of loss from both sides, and ends with the lessons we can learn from the war as well as from those losses. Herring keeps a neutral voice by providing different perspectives on the issues happened in both Vietnam and the United States. This neutral characteristic of Herring’s essay helps the author deliverers his messages to a variety of audiences about the “legacy” of an expensive and bloody war. This essay will discuss about the main arguments in Herring’s article: the strategies during the Nixon from 1969 following by the events that lead the war-end in 1975, the policies Vietnam and the United States had applied to manage their post-war issues, and what we can learn by looking back at those events. The latter part of this essay discuss my personal opinion about why the war was an unnecessary sacrifice from both sides.
Within four years of 1969 to 1973, the “fierce” Nixon bombed the country more than which of the Johnson’s eight years administration. That left the countryside of Vietnam in devastation and many years later of toxification. After the January 1973’s “peace” agreement, the U.S officially withdrawn its …show more content…
The very first controversy was what was the meaning of the war. Many Americans found that it was a meaningless to lose so many people and resources and such an expensive war. They were angry that the war were fought without civilian’s approval. The second controversy was about why the U.S lost the war. Some believed the reason was the ill-strategies making, while some believed it was because of how the strategies were processed. Those who believed so though it would be better for the U.S to act quickly next time it involve in another
Within four years of 1969 to 1973, the “fierce” Nixon bombed the country more than which of the Johnson’s eight years administration. That left the countryside of Vietnam in devastation and many years later of toxification. After the January 1973’s “peace” agreement, the U.S officially withdrawn its …show more content…
The very first controversy was what was the meaning of the war. Many Americans found that it was a meaningless to lose so many people and resources and such an expensive war. They were angry that the war were fought without civilian’s approval. The second controversy was about why the U.S lost the war. Some believed the reason was the ill-strategies making, while some believed it was because of how the strategies were processed. Those who believed so though it would be better for the U.S to act quickly next time it involve in another