[Plain Old Jane]

if you are refering to the vietnam war, it has still felt the effects of that war.
Thanks to the war, new land boundries were set up and there is no longer a central vietnam, just south (taking up two thirds of the land) and north vietnam. They call that war, the American war. And thanks to the use of Agent Orange, much of the peoples inhabiting those areas have a higher incedence of cancer. Although friendly and a genuinely open atmosphere, the war is something talked about with a great deal of... reservation.

So because of the scary communist machine, thousands of people, including americans, suffer from the after effects of Agent Orange, and Vietnam still suffers the same stigma it suffered then.

(on communism: USSR couldnt even feed its own people much less present a political rival, the problem with it is that its economic system was based on the fact that it MIGHT have been better then America, that is to everyone else, people who lived there KNEW it was shitty. Which kind of rings true now, theres lots of dissidents in America and a lot of other countries think we're great, and thats the basis for our entire economic system.)

Unless one learns from a war, then the fighting has been for nothing. We used Saddam to get at Syria... now we're using other countries to get at Iraq. We used Osama to get at the russians... now we're using the british, the austrailians, and the germans to get at Osama. Unless we learn to keep our heads level and make smart and rational and WELL THOUGHT OUT decisions, we will be doomed to repeating this war over and over...