...forced the Communist Soviet Union to do the same for Communist North Vietnam to the tune of $$Billions$$.
...Only they couldn't afford it and in the end it help BANKRUPT them as we all saw the Berlin Wall and the Communist Soviet Union come tumbling down.
Had the Soviet Union not been so engaged, we might have faced the scenario of Gen. Sir John Hackett in The Third World War: August 1985.
The Black Book of Communism indicates Communism killed 100 million in the last century. From Stalin's pogroms, "famines" and purges to Mao's Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, "famines" and labor camps, to Pol Pot's pyramid of two million skulls and Fidel's 100,000 victims of political prisonerhood, fusilamientos, and drownings, the bloodbath of Communism has proven the greatest of evils.
That American resistance in Vietnam, altogether with the Reagan arms race bankrupted and dissolved the Warsaw Pact is the greatest victory for freedom in the world.
"We Were Soldiers" is simply a single statement in the new, emended history of the Twentieth Century, in which the American fighting man broke the yoke of the Communist slavemaster.
In the Twenty-First Century, the Islamofascist threat and its ChiCom patron will be similarly dismantled, without the interference of Johnson, McNamara, or Kissinger.