Did the power of television force the United States to leave Vietnam?

Did the power of television force the United States to leave Vietnam?

With public sentiment nothing can fail
Without it nothing can succeed
Consequently, he who moulds public sentiment
Goes deeper than he who enacts statutes
Or pronounces decisions

Abraham Lincoln

Vietnam was the world’s first televised war for the first time the full horror of war was brought into the living rooms of millions of Americans night after night eventually inspiring revulsion and exhaustion among the US population. Source K states that television had a huge impact on the war making an entire nation anti-militarist and anti-war and forever shaped democracy and public perception of events during wartime. The BBC commentator then goes on to point out that, ‘blood looks very red on the colour television screen’. Most Americans by the time Vietnam began had colour televisions for the first time making something that seemed like a movie into a mo...