"But Greg, America's involvement in Vietnam was wrong! And, the soldiers - as naive, as young, and as impressionable as they were - were wrong! It's amazing when an invading army become " the victims"!

According to the dominant moral and legal thinking of the time, those
that obeyed the draft and went to war were not "wrong." They obeyed the
law. As well as conforming to the ideal of their own families (don't
forget--- many of their fathers were WW2 vets, others Korea vets).

They didn't deserve the "trip" that Buffy Ste. Marie decided to
lay on them "He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame..."

Young men aren't responsible for the decision to make war, or to
send them to war. Old men (and women) in the halls of power are,
people that never have to get their hands dirty and bloody.

And young men returning from war, after horrible experiences there,
certainly don't deserve to be assaulted, spit on, or to be called
'baby killers.'

The "Universal Soldier" lyric was part and parcel of the thinking
that said that they did deserve such mistreatment.

And if you want to talk about "wrong" that pretty much sums it up.