Oh, the films were okay. It was the dying and killing to take real estate, only to give it up because politicians felt it better to do so -- the same politicians who sent the troops there in the first place.

I've just remembered the absolute worst war flick I ever saw. It was Catch-22 and it completely missed the point of the book and concentrated on Yorssairin's antics instead. The book is magnificent, the movie is...well...somewhat less than that.