re: Could any strategy have worked in Vietnam?

We could have turned Hanoi into Dresden if we wanted to, but the optics would have been bad.

Strategically it was a very winnable war. But was it a war worth killing that many innocents when we didn’t have a chance of being invaded by a country?

Personally, I feel communism and forcing people to live under it is as much as a human tragedy as the holocaust, but the reality was that North Vietnam wasn’t the worldwide threat that Nazi Germany was.