Few legislators had taken the request
seriously; many conservative Republicans and hawkish Democrats agreed by
then that Vietnam was lost and that the expenditure would have been a
waste." (Zelizer, 1)
At this juncture, the government which the United States had left to
support itself in South Vietnam was toppled and the nation existed under a
single, communist flag. Vietnam's 'victory' passed only the major
criterion of dispatching a foreign enemy from its soil with its
governmental self-determination intact. But for the toll levied on its
infrastructure, in its psyche and through the millions dead in the region,
it could hardly be said that Vietnam won a war which the United States
clearly lost.
Works Cited:
Hickman, K. (2008). Vietnam War: End of the Conflict. About...
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