<span>Many Americans opposed the war on moral grounds, opposed by the devastation and violence of the war. Others claimed the conflict was a war against Vietnamese independence, or an intervention in a foreign civil war; others opposed it because they felt it lacked clear objectives and appeared to be unwinnable.</span>
France first attempted to build the canal in the 1870s. He left quite a few diseases and financial problems behind. Ferdinand de Lessups was the engineer who designed the Suez Canal.