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It certainly did. The Agent Orange that the US drenched Viet Namh with has resulted in a phenomenal, multi-generation, epidemic of birth defects.

It killed about 2 million Viet Namese. It destroyed their economy by economic sanctions imposed after we pulled out. And so on.

There is no doubt it had an effect.

50 years from now we'll be asking the same question about Iraq and Afghanistan. I'm betting 78% of people will say, "no," then, too.

It was more of an Far East war as many countries were involved --- China, Russia, Cambodia, North and South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Australia, Korea and the Philippines come to mind.

It certainly made a difference, North Vietnam became even more nationalistic and has remained free of Chinese dominance. It had a devastating effect on the US military forces with the drug culture infiltration, as well as the disdain that was shown to those you served.

The Cambodian people suffered the most, with the Killing fields, which killed millions of Cambodians at the hands of Pol Pot, the Vietnamese suffered greatly as well, whether the VC or North Vietnamese executing those whod did not support their views totally or the bombing of North Vietnam by the US military. The genocide of the Hmong people by the North Vietnamese and VietCong, which resulted in the boat people, many of whom became refugees. There was blood on the hands of both sides; more so on the "victors", but the underlying question that needs to be answered is to whether the US and other countries opted not to get get involved, how things woud have turned out.

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