We Won,the price was high, but we won.
Won what? Vietnam, where the North ended up taking over the South and making the entire country a communist dictatorship after the US bugged out, or are you talking about countries in which the death toll to the local populations is as high as 6 figures and in which religious muslim nutcases of various stripes are running wild butchering and killing anyone they disagree with.
Hell, they’re literally selling negro slaves in open air markets in Libya like the good old days, and Iraq is slowly falling under the thrall of Iran with its sectarian shia government, and Syria has been gripped by a murderous civil war for the best part of a decade because Assad isn’t a US puppet like most other middle eastern dictators and western governments have been stirring it up as part of their never ending proxy war against Russia.