![]() ![]() Unlike in the Vietnam era, during which Black men were disproportionately sent to the front lines, today’s racial justice movement has been spurred by police brutality and economic, social and other inequalities, not the war in Afghanistan. In addition, he noted, “the protests against the war in Vietnam were partly fueled by racial issues, as the draft hit Blacks particularly hard and the civil rights movement immediately preceded.” ![]() foreign policy programs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Not so, Vietnam,” said Daniel Serwer, who directs conflict and U.S. “The Afghanistan war was one America entered with a strong bipartisan consensus in favor. becoming involved in the Vietnam war, unlike for Afghanistan. In Vietnam, the fight was against communism, in a distant land - a struggle most Americans at the time saw as important, but not necessarily one that would directly affect them. effort to resettle vulnerable refugees, including those who worked for the U.S. But war’s struggles followed themĪbout 94,000 Afghanistan evacuees have arrived as part of the U.S. World & Nation They escaped Afghanistan for California and beyond. soil since Pearl Harbor was a visceral gut-punch to the U.S., a threat to America around which it was easy to rally patriotic support. 11, 2001, planes hijacked and piloted by mostly Saudi militants working for the terror group Al Qaeda plunged into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C., killing nearly 3,000 people. The United States had been attacked: On Sept. ![]() To many, the reasons for going into Afghanistan probably seemed noble and clear. “Today we have a professional military class that experiences all of the dislocation and tensions” involved in deploying to conflicts, said Bruce Schulman, a historian at Boston University and author of “The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics.” Chances are most Americans, Hall said, “don’t have the same type of personal consequence in the Afghanistan war.” This was not the case with Afghanistan because, as a result of Vietnam, enlisting in the military is now on a voluntary basis.
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