The more I read about it, the more I question whether it was really a loss, at least in the traditional sense of the word. The US was absolutely devastating the North, even though the US was supposed to be operating in a supporting role to the South. But the South was not holding up its end and was either too corrupt or inept to ever truly take the reigns from their US counterparts. Since the war kept dragging on and on, the American public lost its interest in sending their youth to fight and die, especially when the cause of supporting democracy on the other side of the world lost its appeal. I've spoken to a lot of Vietnam vets and, so far at least, they all said they hated being there but they never thought they were losing, then they just went home.
But it's still a loss... even in the traditional sense of the word... like wtf
Why is so hard for some Americans to admit that it's a loss. I'll never understand it.
It was a loss. Yea, the North got hit pretty badly and all, but we lost in the end. You can't pull out all your forces, fail to complete the goals you set out to complete and then go "Yeah guys we won this day".