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One of these things is not like the others ...
Ending the Vietnam War? Although young people in 1969 reported being more likely to sympathize with anti-war demonstrators' goals, they were generally less likely to call the war a "mistake", at least between 1965 & 1971.
Which one? I mean, superficially, the second option on the list ("Non-aligned countries") is not actually a policy proposal, but I'm assuming the charitable reading is something like "Support for non-alignment". Is that what you meant, or something else?
Decolonization of Africa.
I don't get it. In what respect is that not like the others?
It wasn't a good outcome.
Neither was ending the Vietnam war. For that matter, did the Non-Aligned movement accomplish much of anything besides providing cover for various dictators?
I considered those two options but figured that they're more muddled cases. Africa decolonization was clearly an order of magnitude worse than the worst-case interpretations of Vietnam+Nonaligned.