iOS/iPad OS has had a file manager for years? It’s not great, and heavily restricted, but it for sure exists.

Holy shit. I instantly thought “Vietnam” because it’s been considered an abject failure my entire life, but rereading it does seem to leave it open for interpretation. Iraq and Afghanistan had much more mixed attitudes growing up because people never seemed to fully understand the differences between our motivations for those and thought it was basically all just 9/11 retaliation, which they were for lest they be anti-american or whatever. I assume Vietnam was able to remain seen as a failure because those who were against it could lean on the widely unpopular draft, and those who were “for” it only ever said we should’ve finished what we started rather than pull out.