As opposed to the vietnamese that died after the war was over, right?
Somehow liberals think that if a despotic government kills people, it didn't really happen. Just like they forget about all the mass graves in Iraq from Saddam.
Nah, they just think the war was a "mistake" from the South Vietnamese POV. All the deaths occured because the South Vietnamese "needlessly" resisted, you see - and that made them just as bad, no, worse than the North. Since the North had the ideological sympathies of the American Left, any means could be forgiven as an oversight made while in pursuit of a good end. The same couldn't, and still can't, be said for the US, whose every procedural anomoly is the proof they need that Americans are actually evil, greedy, capitalist thugs.
I wonder what made the US's involvement in Vietnam any less justified than our involvement in Korea? Because the "international community" didn't give it the stamp of approval?
Anomaly, too.