What Goober said. A lot more civilian Vietnamese were killed by U.S. soldiers and bombers during the years of the war than were killed afterwards by the Vietnamese government. If the war had gone on indefinitely, that total would be astronomical by now.

In recent years, the U.S. has been far too ready to go to war. War not only kills people and destroys things, but it's also inimical to liberty. In wartime, a people compromises liberty, sacrificing rights and freedoms that we would never give up in peacetime. Perpetual war means tyranny.

Have you ever read Orwell's 1984?