The Vietnam War was not like WWII. Literally everyone was doing what they could to stay out of it. If you start condemning folks who avoided it, you won’t have many people left from that period that you can support.
You're missing the point, D1. If we can't blame Cheney for avoiding fighting at war in Nam -- and I don't don't -- why then has he been such a robust chickenhawk? Could it be his questionable conflict of interest between the military-industrial complex?
Moreover, it can be argued that Dick (CFR) Cheney was instrumental in NOT securing the US border post-9/11 as Mexicans were given a free reign to invade. We are paying the price for that legacy as well as an over-intrusive government.
You had three attitudes towards the Vietnam war at the time.
One group supported US involvement in the war and volunteered (or had their children volunteer) to fight it.
Another group opposed the war and did everything they could to avoid serving.
Then there was a third, hypocritical category of people, those who just loved the war as long as someone else or someone else's kid does the fighting. Cheney is the poster boy for this mindset.