We didn't lose in Vietnam. We lost in the media, the halls of academia, the halls of congress and the whitehouse. We could have taken Hanoi about as fast as we took baghdad. The problem is that after ya take it, then what?
Then we keep troops there forever, like in South/North Korea.
A political war, with a black granite Wall of our own in DC.
It infuriates me.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.