It's not as though the only way to be "pro-American" is to be pro-militarism. And quite frankly, there was never any defense for what our leaders did to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.

The people who ran our war against those countries knew, the whole time, that there was not only no chance of military victory for our side, but that the vast majority of the people of those countries didn't want "The West" to treat their countries as colonies. If they'd wanted that, they wouldn't have driven the French out at Dien Ben Phu.