With all due respect, these "gains" he describes are very very questionable.

I hope I am allowed to make a distinction between my support for those who served in Vietnam, for whom I have nothing but respect and admiration, and my loathing for the policy that was the war.

I don't want to hijack this thread to start a point by point dialogue between you and me on purported gains of that war.

Let me just say I don't agree with him.