Is it a myth that the US lost the Vietnam War?

From a Vietnam War Veteran I know he told me what happened. He said under Nixon we won our mission in the Vietnam War with the Paris Peace Accords. Our mission was to prevent North Vietnam from taking over South Vietnam, it was never to do a full scale invasion of North Vietnam and storm through Hanoi as China and the USSR would never have allowed that to happen. After the Paris Peace Accords that brought a peace agreement with North and South Vietnam right there we WON our objective, the radical left via the democrats in Congress, the liberal media, the Anti-War movement were Furious over this, they never wanted peace in the Vietnamese Pennisula at SEA, they wanted a communist victory all along. So after we withdrawn all our troops the democrats and radical leftwings in Congress blocked Nixon from sending any aid to South Vietnam and tried to hound Nixon from office for that while the USSR was supplying and arming North Vietnam. North Vietnam broke the peace agreement and invaded the South, while the democrats in Congress made it impossible for Ford to send any possible assisstance to South Vietnam. North Vietnam succeded in taking over the South. That's the story from the Vietnam Veteran I know who was there on what really happened.

@ jimmy US combat forces left South Vietnam two years before the North successfully invaded in 1975. Learn to recognize reality instead of spewing your obvious anti-American rant.

Vietnam was a political defeat for the USA, but not a military defeat.

It was also a political defeat for the United Nations, which did nothing when a member nation (South Vietnam) was invaded in a war of conquest by North Vietnam.

Most I've heard have either said we lost or lost but were just a 3rd party.

Either way the 'L' word is usually met angrily.

I don't see how it was a win, though.

Have you been watching the Vietnam War, broadcast in parts on PBS - TV. The Peace Treaty was shown during Part 9.
"The Vietnam War" - a new 10-part, 18-hour documentary film series - directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

We won the war, but the politician lost!

The Communists in North Vietnam actually signed a peace treaty, effectively surrendering. But the US Congress didn't hold up its end of the bargain.

Oh please

The moment a democracy goes to war, the war's popularity begins to fall. Americans like to be able to declare victory quickly and then come home, but when a war drags on, it is inevitable that we will settle for anything that doesn't cause us to lose too much face.

We negotiated conditions which allowed us to walk to the exits with our flags flying, instead of running to get out, in disarray.

50k plus Americans died to defeat a now discredited ideaology. We lost

When we got out the way we did and sustained 50.000+ killed inn action, you can't call it a victory, It is no myth. First of all, the politicians screwed things up, and after Korea, didn't we learn, never get involved in a land war in Asia

The USA has never actually won any war, it's either lost or abandoned them. Only when Allies are involved has the USA been in the winning team- even then as a bit part player.

Vietnam was a loss for the US as they DID want full control over vietnam as a military post similar to the occupying state of Israel today - they didn't manage that. Instead they chose to rewrite their objectives at the Paris accords and come away with a small semblance of face.

Don't forget the USA is the world's mercenary army and an informal empire. It's military objective is always to setup a military post in the country or to control the economy to it's favour in a country. It didn't manage either in Vietnam.

The USA went into Vietnam to prevent the Communists taking over the south they Failed They Lost and we the troops got spat upon because Congress stuffed up

FYI, we did not declare war. We were there to cover the withdrawal of the French Colonial Government and to bolster the fledgling government of South Vietnam,(Formerly French Indochina) until they were able to sustain themselves. Unfortunate, the operation was a stalemate and the Government of South Vietnam was a failure so we left.

For us, it was never a declared war, so there was nothing to either win or lose.