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 :I hope you like what I did. It's tricky, because I am an open partisan. I believe the US should not have withdrawn from Vietnam, although I am critical of several policies. When I served in the US army (1982-1984 an 1986-1989) I heard a lot of stories from combat veterans: what they did and what they saw. There was plenty of ethical ambiguity ther, to put it mildly. 

 :My personal feeling is that the US had good intentions, but poor strategy and highly ineffective tactics. I still don't think the army has ""learned the lessons of the Vietnam War"", and that's one reason I dropped out after my second enlistment.  

 :""Anti-war"" rhetoric nearly always takes the side of the Communists. It dismisses all criticism of Communist tyranny, omits any mention of Communist atrocities. Do you know how many boat people died trying to escape after the Communists took over all of Vietnam? I suggest reading Doan Van Toai's book, Le Gulag Vietnamien (he wrote it in French, Vietnam being a former French colony).  "