The Vietnam War showed the USA that it would have to learn to live with communism. To what extent is this statement true?

It is true that, to some extent, the course and the outcome of the Vietnam War forced the USA to respect communism and accept the communist sphere of influence. In the Vietnam War, the USA was not capable of defeating a colonial power which enjoyed being supplied by communist China and the USSR. Despite this, the USA likes to cover up the victory of communism with Stalinists subsequent inability to solve all the problems that the Vietnamese People had to face. The USA is not a world power which likes to confess defeat and the intervention in the Gulf also served to demonstrate the power o…