University Protests against the Israeli Incursion into Palestine

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There are powerful weapon lobbies in many countries but they are stronger in the US than in other countries. I believe that the Vietnam War was also largely supported by this weapon lobbies. And back then, it was also the youth that rose its voice and stopped that war that would have otherwise lasted well into the 80’s.

No one argues that arms lobbies exist, but your claim that they caused the war in Afghanistan is not correct.

As for Vietnam, of course the arms lobby supported the war. The youth who started the anti-war movement did not stop it, though. That only happened once the middle-class as a whole got fed up by it, and that was as much a result of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers revealing the secret extension of the war as it was student sit-ins that left their parents bemused if not irritated.