I seem to recall us discussing this very issue around here not too long ago. Regardless, this seems like a job for Mac Owens. From a reader:

Dear Mr. Goldberg,
Would you please utilize some of your tremendous mental powers in order to aid a homeschooling mom who has hit a proverbial wall in trying to come up with a conservative introduction to the Vietnam War for my kids? Every book in our library seems to take the expected tone of lauding the doves and berating the hawks. The best one of the lot referred to Ho Chi Minh as a “bearded, willowy” man, much like George Washington in leading his people in rebellion. You don’t want to know what the others were like.
It is sad to note that I majored in history myself, and never once studied Vietnam in all the years of my education (not even in US history classes; they never seemed to get that far before the school year ended). Can you help me find some sort of guide that will present a reasoned view of the war to my 8 and 10 year olds? I am beginning to doubt that there is such a thing (and if there’s not, maybe somebody should write one! Hint, hint).