Comparative Essay #2

Comparative Essay #2

Introduction

The paper is based on the comparison two articles named “A Crippling Defeat for the United States” by Robert Buzzanco and “Tet and the Media” by William Hammond. These articles invite us to discover how one of the most important episodes of the Cold War, the Vietnam War, but also the first American defeat, shocked the world and tarnished the image and prestige of this country questioned. America, no longer, appears in the same light but as a country of disillusionment. Questions arise; the country is it still going strong, with moral values, land of freedom and justice. Recall that the Vietnam War was very expensive about $140 billion, which precipitated America in inflation and the dollar crisis in the 1960s.

A Crippling Defeat for the United States

The Vietnam War is the conflict in South-East South Vietnam supported by the United States and North Vietnam supported by the Soviet Union. However, the country was also at the end of this war a real human disaster, mostly young Americans, the "boys", with nearly 57,000 dead and 153,303 wounded. The atrocity of the conflict begins to be published; they are so secret documents, the Pentagon, for example that some reporters from the New York Times have purchased, to reveal to people the massacres taking place in order to s' question the foundations of their policy, their morality and their society questioned who was soon to result in the form of growing demoralization, large protests, charges against the GIs who refuse it and that feel betrayed by American civilians. Americans were shocked by the images of this "dirty war".

The Vietnam War was a Cold War era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from November 1, 1955 to the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. This war ...