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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I think it was easier for americans to see themselves as having something in common with the Vietnamese than with the various Arabs they have been fighting, the Vietnamese were obviously no threat to the US, even the most shallow of investigations made it pretty obvious it was little more than a US attempt to maintain western control of a country that really didn't want us. US military technology was so much less sophisticated therefore they did kill hundreds of thousands of civilians in order to prop up an undemocratic puppet regime.
The arabs, on the other hand, have less in common with the average american, they have proved to be a threat to the US and US technology has kept civilian deaths directly caused by them to a much lower amount.
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Remember Vietnam was divided in two. The South was very grateful the Americans were helping to fight the Communists and felt abandoned when the US left (even with some of the atrocities).