We helped to destabilize Cambodia which was one of the factors in allowing the Khamer to do what they did.
Nam was a civil war. The Viets were not going to accept foreigners on their soil; French American or otherwise.
You are WRONG!
You better read up on your history from sources other than the NY Times. Nam was not a civil war, it was a war of Communist and part of the plane to take over all of Asia. Because we fought for 10 years we allowed many, but not all, of the countries in the area to stabilize and keep the communist out. Also you seem to have missed the 1 million to 3 million murders of Vietnamese AFTER the war by the communist. Who persecuted all business people which lead the country to be in a starvation mode until the min 1990’s. It was not till the people complained that the communist government started to ease up, and to start actually encourage evil capitalism. When the old jungle fighter finally die, the country may start to become more democratic.