The Atrocious Nature of the Vietnam War
The soon-to-be "fall" of Afghanistan, at least from a U.S. perspective, put me to mind of Vietnam and its fall in 1975. As we examine why U.S. military interventions (or invasions) keep ending so badly, we might consider how there are always winners to these losing wars in America. After all, the Afghan War has cost the U.S. more than a trillion dollars in twenty years, and quite a few people have prospered from it.
In the end, Vietnam and Afghanistan were never America's to win, and our presence there, and our use of massive firepower, left behind a legacy of violence and destruction that should be a national shame.