Talk:Vietnam Syndrome

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see lists of open tasks and regional and topical task forces. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.
Stub	This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the quality scale.
Additional information and associated task forces: This article is not currently associated with a task force. To tag it for one or more task forces, please add the task force codes from the template instructions to the template call.

[edit] Stabbed in the back

The article gave the impression that pro-Vietnam-war people made specific reference to the "Stabbed in the back" theory about Germany in World War I, or used the phrase "Stabbed in the back" themselves. There are no citations supporting this, and as far as I can tell, the comparisons to World War I are instead made by those opposed to the Vietnam war. Instead, I moved reference to "Stabbed in the back" to the "See also" section. Andjam 01:02, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

This article also gives the impression that 1) the entire American public was against the Vietnam War (which is untrue) and 2) that the 'Vietnam Syndrome' is used in reference to the American public, when it's actually directed towards American leftists and liberals. I believe some major editing is in order. 69.58.249.133 20:15, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. The term has been used far more broadly. See for instance the way it is used in Reagan's 1980 speech and Nixon's 1985 bookFairlane75 (talk) 12:23, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I agree, the "Stabbed in the back" reference is not really relevant, and appears to be an attempt at guilt by association. I suggest removing it completely. Also, this article is of very poor quality in its present form and desperately needs work. I will tweak it here and there as time permits, but someone else will have to revise it substantially. --Varenius 21:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I have reinserted the reference to the "stab-in-the-back" issue because it was a term used as far back as the late 1960s, in a Time article. It was a term of public debate and thus deserves to be mentioned.Fairlane75 (talk) 12:21, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] polemic

This article appears to me to suffer a rather suggestive bias; at the least, it is repetitive, and ought to be given another round of Wikification. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.53.123.71 (talk • contribs) 1 July 2006

Feel free to modify the article yourself! Also, what specific problems do you see that need fixing? -Phoenixrod 06:57, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tags

I've added two tags to the article: weasel words and not citing sources. I've tried to mark spots in the article that use weasel words like "many pundits". I think the above comments are related. -Phoenixrod 07:51, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

I have also added a rewrite tag. I think some of the material here can be saved, so it's not necessarily a "complete" rewrite that's needed, but substantial work is necessary. --Varenius 22:53, 31 July 2006 (UTC)