[watcher1]

Vietnam was a win-win.

No. We were never a colony of Vietnam's. We were a colony of england's.
We went to war with england ( for whatever reasons ) and retained our independence.
That's a win.

BTW The aim of the brits was to conquer us and bring us back into the empire. Yes or No?

[Poohbah]

No, they were not planning on returning us to their empire. That is your first mistaken assumption. I outlined England's strategic aims in the War of 1812; all of these goals were achieved. Conversely, none of America's strategic aims were achieved. We started the war, we lost the war as measured against our strategic aims, and have since done some very Clintonian spinning (emphasizing the few successful frigate actions to cover over the complete destruction of American overseas commerce, stressing the fact that the British did not conquer us when the idea behind the war was that WE would conquer Canada) to avoid discussing that unpleasant fact.