Did Jane Fonda help end the Vietnam war by carrying the message that America opposed it?

Question

We should thank her for saving American lives who might otherwise have been lost continuing that senseless war.

Mike, 3 million people didn't die in the killing fields, the US defeat in Vietnam had nothing to do with it, and communist Vietnam stopped the genocide. Please get a passing acquaintance wi the facts.

Mike, does your ignorance know no bounds? The killing fields were in Cambodia, not Vietnam. Read a book, then open your mouth.

Jacob W, the war was immoral and we killed 4 million Vietnamese for no reason whatsoever. ANYTHING that ANYBODY did to stop the war was a good thing.

Answer 1

Why all these Jane Fonda questions today? Is someone gonna start asking Ann Coulter questions too?

Answer 2

This is important. Please get this one point if you understand nothing else. America can never be defeated from without. It is only by displaying a lack of resolve here at home that has caused our military to fail. No, American lives, Vietnamese lives, Laotian lives and Cambodian lives were not saved by war protesters. They only encouraged the enemy to keep fighting. You don't have to believe me, there are volumes written by the Vietnamese attesting to this fact. It was only the constant drumbeat of dissent in America that made the North Vietnamese, who lost every major battle, to keep fighting.

Dissenters are having the same effect in Iraq and elsewhere. No group or country believes for one minute that they can defeat our military. But Jane and those like her, have taught them that they don't have to. Just prolong the conflict long enough and the worthless and weak American public will loose their stomach for it and cry for peace and replace their government with doves.

This was never the case in America before. We always kept our politics within our own borders. When troops were sent in harms way we traditionally supported the effort 100% here at home. The result? We never lost a war. We defeated Nazi Germany, Facist Italy and Imperial Japan in four years. In Vietnam? 10 years and loss. Iraq, 6 years and counting. That, is the difference. If we, here at home were steadfast in our support for our troops that we sent, no enemy would bother trying to resist.

Instead, we have American citizens doing the enemy's dirty work for them. Why? I suppose, political advantage.
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Answer 3

The Vietnam war ended because foreign policy and military strategy were turned over to the likes of Jane Fonda and Walter Cronkite.
Consequently, the nation became severely divided and the military can not function in that environment. Nonetheless, the US did not lose one single major engagement. Even after we left, the RVN were able to defend their country admirably and were actually on the verge of creating a secure northern border. The North's assest were completely exhausted and the Russians and Chinese were backing off. It was not until the democrats cut off the Funding under Ford did the carnage begin.
That you are in denial about the number of people that were massacred in the following months is disturbing. And, that you profess it as fact is even more bizarre.
You should avoid this subject completely because you don't have a clue.

Answer 4

The Fonda trip became unforgettable because it infuriated Americans, especially Americans in uniform, many of whom still regard her as a traitor. She praised the North Vietnamese, posed for a photo at a Communist anti-aircraft gun emplacement, made several radio broadcasts for the Communist North Vietnamese in which she called American military leaders "war criminals," then when some of the POWs returned home and described mistreatment by the North Vietnamese, she said Americans should "...not hail the POWs as heroes, because they are hypocrites and liars."

There is no dispute that her visit took place and that her words and actions were in support of the enemy.

Answer 5

She brought medicine to the people of Viet Nam. Given the tragic consequences of the US invasion on the Vietnamese population, Fonda's actions saved the lives of those who needed those medicines.
I don't believe she had any meaningful effect on the war at large.

As for the other answers: Learn history and geography. It is incredible that Americans are still confused about the geopolitics of SE Asia. The French colony of Indochina gained independence in 1954. The region went on to become 3 nations roughly along ethnic/national lines: Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam. The US was unhappy about the loss of European influence in the Asian mainland so they set up client regimes in Thailand, Laos and S.V.N. Popular nationalists in N.V.N and Cambodia (Ho Chi Mihn and Prince Sinahouk) were difficult to remove so the US scraped the peace agreements of '54, canceled elections in VN and sent in covert agents. The war in VN was the US parallel to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. All who aided the Vietnamese victims are worthy of praise.

By the way, the US supported Pol Pot throughout his murder of a million ethnic Vietnamese. The US is directly responsible for 4M deaths. How close is that to the holocausts 6M?

edit: who is that idiot above me? the US did not defeat Nazi germany? What movie did that nimrod get his history from?

Answer 6

Jane Fonda should have been charged with treason and sentenced with the death penalty. I hope you're aware that she went to visit POWs and when she was shaking prisoners hands, a man tried to slip a note into her hand (thinking she was a American, obviously not) and she told one of the prison guards. She posed with the enemies war equipment. The Vets hate her. As the rest of America should. Please don't ever post that question again.

Answer 7

Jane Fonda deserves the fact that Vietnam Vets spit on her.

What makes you think lives are SAVED when you go to the middle of a war zone, where people are shooting at you and want to see you dead--just to convey the msg that everyone in America hates you?

Killing morale kills soldiers.

Answer 8

she certainly did go the line and grew to grow to be a traitor. If a bugular is coming by your window and you shoot them, you will be able to desire to have faith that your existence grow to be in risk. If no longer, you will be able to desire to be charged with homicide. i think she extra advantageous than surpassed the definition of treason. loose speech, first modification rights are one situation, going over to the enemies cities, making recordings, etc. is a few thing else. She is a maggot. She could desire to have in basic terms dwindled away and attempt to appreciate what she did. No type.

Answer 9

Jane Fonda was probably the first person to get away with Treason publically.

It was never actually proven that she was passing America secrets, but the military still hates her to this day.

So I would say no She didn't do anything but escalate the war.

Answer 10

Hey Hippie, if you think posing for pictures on enemy tanks while U.S. soldiers are getting beaten and straved to death is cool, you got some issues. If you think it's cool that she turned over a note from a captured U.S. Soldier JUST TO LET his wife and kids know he was alive to our enemy, and get beaten nearly one-inch of his life is Treason. Jane Fonda is a Piece of you know, Also wasn't LBJ a liberal Democrat who got us in Vietnam anyway?? wasn't it Nixon(R) who got us out. Also if you put down the BONG and did some real reasch you would know Military wise and tactics we didn't lose that war.