I like to think of it as an anti-Democrat song, without Bruce even realizing it.
Let us never forget, and let’s not anyone else forget, that it was Democrat Presidents (Kennedy/Johnson), plus a significantly Democrat-controlled Congress (both Houses) that got us involved in that war, and when we did, refused to fight it in a way that we could win it.
As a result, 58,000 of our troops died fighting a war of attrition in vain. And the Democrats are 100% responsible for that. No ifs, ands, or buts. No wiggle room whatsoever. Period. 58,000 troops dead, thank you Democrats.
I was just a wee lad when the Vietnam war was going on but it seems to me Richard Nixon basically hung the South Vietnamese out to dry.
I could be wrong about that.