I was dating a Vietnamese woman a little while ago. This eventually, inevitably came up. It is extremely difficult to defend a US policy that measures "success"

I was dating a Vietnamese woman a little while ago. This eventually, inevitably came up. It is extremely difficult to defend a US policy that measures "success" as a body count metric. The Vietnamese people vividly remember this, I don't think it's appropriate to make flip comparisons to a humanitarian catastrophe perpetrated by people the likes of Henry Kissinger in multiple countries, with body counts of millions.