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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5:Why is the Vietnam War considered such a failure?

I didn't grow up in the US, so I don't have much knowledge on that topic. Would love to learn more. thank you!
gpt
From an American view, we lost 58,220 troops, another 303,644 wounded. The south Vietnamese government we were supporting lost the war, and the northern Vietnamese government we were opposing took control of Vietnam. Many of our wounded ended up having a lot of physical and mental problems because of the war experience, it was the first war in America in which post-traumatic stress disorder started being recognized in returning troops. It also tarnished our image as a great military power.

So yeah, it didn't go well for the U.S.