I'll grant you, that JFK was talked into cleaning up for the, yet again, cowardly, trashed French; but, be that as it may, the Communists WERE on the march and this was no "war to shake the coils of colonialism". The Viet Cong were to "FREEDOM FIGHTERS", as is Osama bin Laden to being a George Washington.
Was the Nam War was "fought" ( and I use that term lightly ) badly, mismanaged, micromanaged by LBJ, and that bloody McNamara and the laughably called "the best and the brightest", it was a war worth fighting and one we should have and could have won.
Body bags? The deaths of our military, in war time, is a reason to give up, not fight? Too bad that there were no T.V. cameras during WW II then...if any of us were still alive, these posts would all be in German! Oh hey...we should have had T.V. cameras for WW I ( a war we entered late, never should have been in, and fought on the wrong side; but that's a whole 'nother topic ); especially in France! Wanna talk about unnecessary deaths?
All you have are anti-war talking points and propaganda.
WW2 - what, a couple thou dead in one day at Iwo Jima? Indeed, modernity made us into wimps.