Vietnam’s failure had no domestic American impact because it was not a real defeat

Evidence

Why did this American defeat (the largest reversal in the history of the USA) have no internal repercussions in America? If it had really signified the failure of the planetary strategy of the United States, it would necessarily have completely disrupted its internal balance and the American political system. Nothing of the sort occurred. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 130

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth checking: is Baudrillard’s claim that a real defeat ‘would necessarily have disrupted’ the American system testable, or is this a convenient post-hoc explanation?
• XREF: connects to: The American Left never organized demands for reparations to Vietnam — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 49

Broader Connections

• The American Left never organized demands for reparations to Vietnam #corroborates (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 49