Another perspective

Dear Americans

I looked this site over, and still can't decide on whether or 
not your responses are justified.  The sense of hysteria is 
pretty powerful whenever the Vietnam War is brought up, and I 
still struggle to grasp why this conflict is so deeply 
entrenched in the American psyche.  Perhaps its because it was 
the first war that was turned into a "media event", death 
broadcast directly into your homes for the first time.  
Perhaps it is that American vision of invincibility, firmly 
trounced by the Viet Cong, the mighty US Army beaten by a 
guerilla army of peasants.  Perhaps its because of a national 
guilt on behalf of those that evaded the draft, not even 
excluding your very own President Bill Clinton.


I believe it is time for Americans to reasses their past.  The 
prevalant "we won in Vietnam, even though we had to make some 
concessions" mentality must be firmly erased.  It is time for 
Americans to face up to the fact that they LOST, and lost 
badly.  Americans must realise that they had made a mistake, 
and instead of thinking in terms of being the saviours of the 
"Free World", and continue to make costly mistakes such as 
Vietnam and Somalia, must contend themselves with dealing with 
their own domestic problems.