The American people wanted nothing to do with the Vietnam war. Having witnessed the unthinkable acts of violence through their TV's, and the obviousness that the Vietnamese did not want them there in the first place, the majority of Americans distanced themselves from the war. The Vietnam war was also their most debilitating war, costing them more than $167 billion dollars a year. This pushed the US economy to its limits, and resulted in its only defeat thus far.
