re: Could any strategy have worked in Vietnam?

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But after watching this series I am beginning to question some of my previous beliefs about the “rightness” of this war.

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The Burns series very cleverly focuses in on the Vietnam vets who later vehemently opposed the war - the Kerry comrades. I think this was on purpose to give more credibility/gravitas to the anti-war movement.

We're also ignoring the obvious flaw in many of these theories - the United States - by any objective measure won the Vietnam War. The North seized upon the opportunity provided by Nixon's resignation to undo that and the U.S. Congress, in a display of bipartisan cowardice the likes of which this nation has never seen and will likely never see again, threw that victory away with a not-so-subtle, "frick you" to a pleading Gerald Ford and all the wasted lives to that point.

So, there's all of that.