The intellectual origins of America-Bashing

[Terrance]

Mike Weaver wrote:
> 
> >American dissent and protest during the Vietnam War is unique in modern
> >history because the people forced the most powerful government in the
> >world to change its foreign policy.
> 
> What a load of hogwash - the US my have stopped sending conscripts in the
> early 70s  (a domestic policy) but continued their military attack on the
> Vietnamese people for a couple more years and after their defeat conducted
> a diplomatic and economic attack for far longer. The details may have
> changed but the intentions never did. They then continued with the same
> policy of aggressive containment/destruction of communist and national
> liberation movements right through the eighties.

I stand by my assertion, 

American dissent and protest during the Vietnam War is unique in modern
history because the people forced the most powerful government in the
world to change its foreign policy.

If you want to argue that dissent and protest in the USA did not force a
change in US foreign policy  during the Vietnam War by all means give it
your best shot.