The point isn't what "Vietnam" did to our soldiers. It's what America did to our soldiers in the Vietnam War. Our soldiers were a different kind of victim than

The point isn't what "Vietnam" did to our soldiers. It's what America did to our soldiers in the Vietnam War. Our soldiers were a different kind of victim than the victims in Vietnam, but victims nonetheless. Vietnam was a vile deception, and a tragic example of focusing on unfounded methodologies (McNamara, running War as a business, body counts), rather than on the why, whether and how.