The real lesson of Viet Nam is that other people have self-interests

[wholetruth00]

and a need to be respected and we should spend more time and money learning about how we can address mutual interests and seeking way to accomodate the self interest of others instead of naming those who are different as "evil" and "terrorists" and always playing the war card.

[acmejack]

1. The real lesson of Vietnam is that 58202 people died for nothing.

Or whatever it was W is now signing it away. That is the lesson. 58202 lives that could have been, think about it. The domino theory was bullshit-that might have been the lesson. Westmoreland was full of crap-that was a lesson, we never were winning. We traumatized a generation, another lesson. We produced a generation of shirkers like Bush and Rove who took power through deciet and lies. Wonderful lessons. Valor loses, lies & cowardice suceed, great lessons.