vietnam

The whole point in intervening in the Vietnam war was to 
preserve our western ways of life and to prevent the spread of
communism - yes?
The only problem with this is that Vietnamese never had 
western ways of life, and communism reigns. Basically it was 
one of the all time biggest blunders.  Go to a country with a 
completely alien culture and fight to preserve something that
 was never there to be preserved.  We went one step too far
and got lost in our own confused desire to save the world from
itself. 
 Vietnam represents to me the blind confusion that comes with
 the queston- what are we fighting for? 
The Vietnam war was a political nightmare, a moral horror 
story and the bad dream of a generation that gained nothing.