And many fine young patriotic boys and men who were forced to fight in a jungle they knew nothing about died for nothing. It makes me cry to think of it.
“died for nothing.”
Never.
The war hastened the fall of the USSR by ten years, and who knows how many lives that saved?
Further, all other things being equal, opposing evil is the right thing to do. They died opposing the evil of communism, and don’t ever let anybody tell you that it wasn’t a very great evil indeed.
Just because we won the cold war doesn’t mean we couldn’t have lost.
Read McMaster’s book and you’ll be even angrier at the cynical fashion in which American GIs were used by political hacks.