"The Tragedy of Vietnam" by George B. Tindall and David E. Sh. and "God's Country and American Know-How" by Loren Baritz.

Vietnam was the only war in history that America lost. This fact has haunted America and her citizens since the end of the end of the Vietnam War. Just as the British were completely humiliated by losing the American Revolution to an inferior army, so was the United Sates about Vietnam. The reasons for intervening in Vietnam were clear: to allow South Vietnam to choose the type of government it wanted, as long as it …

…do not personally support the reasons for intervening in the war, nor staying in the war, I am very confident in the American system of government despite its failures. I also believe that the American way belongs to those who ask for intervention. If a country were to desire intervention, it would not be forcing our values onto that desiring nation, but rather sharing the prosperities that America was and continues to be blessed with.