Originally Posted by t walgamuth

You're right, it was a no win situation. JFK inherited it from Eisenhower, Eisenhower took it over from the French, LBJ inherited it from JFK and Nixon inherited it from LBJ.

All I am sad to say thought they would be thought poorly of by the voters if they walked away from it. I can still hear Nixon saying that to pull out would make all those boys who died before have died in vain, so another 15,000 had to die in vain.

It's easy to say we should have nuked the North or leveled it but if we had done that China would have come in (It's just like if China invaded Mexico or Canada). So we fought this limited war for political reasons and it could not be successful. But all out war would not have succeeded either.

The only way to win would have been to stay home in the first place.

Like we probably should have done in Iraq and Afganistan.