> Second, the Vietnam War did not succeed in containing communism Sure it did, or at least it helped. As with many conflicts of that era, North and South Vietn

> Second, the Vietnam War did not succeed in containing communism Sure it did, or at least it helped. As with many conflicts of that era, North and South Vietnam were proxies for the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. Note that the U.S.S.R. no longer exists. It's been completely eliminated from the face of the earth. That counts as winning, by most standards. Vietnam started the process of bleeding them dry, and Afghanistan finished it.