The difference is that Turkey is part of NATO, which means they are required to spend much of their budget on U.S. military supplies. Yugoslavia didn't want to help the rich get richer, so we bombed them. Now, our corporations are doing Yugoslavia a favor and rebuilding the devastated country. We bombed people, the rich made out like bandits. The U.S. wins.
Lets move back one more decade.
The 80s, when Reagan reigned. Reagan made us proud of Vietnam, and proud of the Vietnam vets, which were spit on when they returned from fighting. No Vets should ever be blamed, they don't make the decisions, like for the U.S. to colonize Vietnam. Unfortunately, they were spit on by Reagan, because he is the one who cut much of the Veteran social programs. He had to, because all those tax cuts to the rich were costing lots of money, so social programs needed to be cut.