Hawks vs. Dove
The war divided the country into two different sections; people who wanted war and the ones who did not. The ones who wanted war were known as the "Hawks" and who didn't were known as the "Doves." The hawks believed that due to the aggression of North Vietnamese it forced the US into war. They thought that the United States should do what ever was necessary to win. Doves thought that the problem in Vietnam was a civil war. They thought that the United States had no right to intervene in their conflicts. They also believed that the money that was spent there could be much better invested in America for domestic programs.