The protests were wrong. It was a noble cause for human freedom. As Reagan said, “A small country (including ethnic Chinese, Catholic Vietnamese and others fleeing Communism), and newly free from colonial rule, sought United States help in establishing self-rule and the means of self-defense against a totalitarian neighbor (Tonkinese) bent on conquest.”
If it were not noble the boat people would never have existed.
That war was not our problem and we shouldn’t sacrifice our men to fight other countries wars.