“lost the war”
No. We won every battle, often killing 20:1. We LEFT the war, and in so doing, abandonned the South Vietnamese to a fate of nearly pure slaughter. We left those people high and dry.
We lost over 50,000 men and women. Walter Cronkite, Jane Fonda and John Kerry must have been very well paid. IIRC, Kerry’s brother has some kind of exclusive real estate brokerage interest in Vietnam now.
In reality, as with Korea, we were fighting Communist China by proxy.
We didn’t abandon Vietnam. Double check your history. Under the Paris Peace Accords we were obligated to arm SV on a one to one basis.
Democrats undid all that and then the commies marched in and then the slaughter of our friends and allies began. Not we, Democrats.