Winning a war and living with the consequences are two very different things. Vietnam won the war. At great cost. Things might have been different if they lost.

Winning a war and living with the consequences are two very different things. Vietnam won the war. At great cost. Things might have been different if they lost. But the US did lose the war, come out of the region and its primary objective of preventing a socialist govt. in Vietnam could not be achieved. Was it worth it for Vietnam to win the war, that is a totally different question. Was it worth it for US to lose the war? Definitely not. The mightiest nation on earth could not overcome a peasant nation with guerrilla fighters and outdated equipment. That is a slap in the face.