The comparison to Viet Nam is not about how the soldiers are treated on return (by the way...it is now an all volunteer army vs. the draft then in effect) but to an unwinnable quagmire.
Thank you, Sarah for seeing my point. My intention was never to "look down on one of our soldiers, or for that matter on any soldier of the other coalition countries involved."

I simply meant that it was another senseless war with thousands (millions in Vietnam) of young men and women being killed.