What country is our model?

Woke up this morning and wondered which country is the U.S. modeled after? A great disparity between the rich and the rest of us. A plutocrasy dressed up as a democracy. So which country are we modeling ourselves after: Saudi-Arabia?
Any other suggestions?

Was Vietnam a war crime?

Woke up this morning and wondered:
Was Vietnam a war crime?

The most general public narrative is that it was a mistake. But does it go further than that? Was it a mistake because it should never have been fought, or because it did not succeed in its objective? Vietnam went Communist anyway, and its "fall" did not start a wave of Communism, as predicted by the domino theory. The rest of the region didn't go Communist.

It was a terrible waste of human life: over two million Vietnamese dead, and 58,000 Americans.

If you think it was a war crime, why?