It’s become a core truth in our anti American boomer dominated culture that we were the bad guys in the Vietnam war. Anything to challenge that has to be swept under the rug.
Well basically, you were. Sorry about that.
If nothing else, your actions effectively bringing the Khmer Rouge to power would be quite enough.
I’m not going to defend the way in which the war was conducted which was horrible but the only difference between Korea and Vietnam is that in Vietnam the communists won. Should we have let them have Korea too?
That was the sort of ignorance that led to our Hubris in the war. Communist North Asian country invading Southern anti-communist country. Korea part 2, right? Wrong. The biggest difference is that South Korea's military government wasn't a beacon of Human Rights or democracy, the people of South Korea by and large supported it. South Vietnam that was not remotely the case. Korea was a good war, Vietnam was colossal mistake getting into, not just as you put it how the war was conducted.
