Well if we had held out in Vietnam, they would have accomplished quite a bit. Millions dead in North Korea, and millions alive in South Korea prove that.
Yeah, it's easy to say they died for nothing, when the leftists in our country, intentionally gave South Vietnam over to the north, causing the whole sale slaughter of millions of Vietnamese that we turned our backs on.
In fact anything that you give away the prize, you can say the lives to get it were wasted.
Now I do disagree to some extent with the nation building. We shouldn't engage in nation building at random, no. But we absolutely should when we defeat them in battle.
The reason we have Japan as a powerful ally, and economic ally, and a friendly nation, is because we helped them rebuild. I think that was wise, and good, and had good results.
The reason wars continue over and over, is because one side walks in, destroys everything, and then leaves, leaving those behind with nothing but bitterness and hatred to feed a new generation.
So if we run into Iraq, and blow everything up, yes we should help rebuild it. Absolutely.
Now the only question is, why did we go into Iraq. I still say, we had just cause to go in there, and it was the right thing to do, and I'm glad we did it. Saddam needed dealt with. He was in violation of the ceasefire up to that point, and he was a danger to the US.
