First, the Vietnam Syndrome had a significant cultural impact on the American public which
altered the U.S. public’s collective cultural view of war from an interventionist to an
anti-interventionist stance. Naturally, this shift in public perception influenced U.S.
presidents’ foreign and domestic policy decisions from President Gerald Ford to President
George H.W. Bush. Second, the Vietnam Syndrome’s anti-interventionist effect challenged the
established security of containment policy through military intervention, forcing presidents
and their administrations to implement different rhetorical approaches and messages to unshackle,
in their view, America from the anti-interventionist effects of the Vietnam Syndrome on foreign
policy decisions. Third, as a means to defeat the lasting impacts of the Vietnam Syndrome, the Bush
administration and the U.S. military enhanced U.S. domestic policy through a multi-stage propaganda
and media censorship campaign to rally public, congressional, and international support for the
Persian Gulf War; which, upon America’s victory in the war, established the New World Order and
re-established America’s security abroad.