The Vietnam War myth

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Don't know why it should be controversial that the US could have possibly won a military victory had it kept up the pressure for a few more years. But this of course ignores the political dimension. A sizeable portion of the US population had become disillusioned with the war, and perhaps more sensibly that anyone in power, saw that ultimately fighting in Vietnam was not in our direct national interest and the sacrifice of lives was not worth it. True, the NV regime was a brutal communist dictatorship and Ho was not the "George Washington" of SE Asia. But that is insufficient grounds for fighting a decade long war that cost 60,000 US lives and 3 million Vietnamese. This is not a right / left issue. The real conservative position in the US has always been noninterventionism