re: #197 Dark_Falcon

We didn’t leave them the battlefield. When we withdrew, it was intended that we would continue to support South Vietnam materially and from the air if needed. But that plan foundered when its architect, Richard Nixon, lost his bargaining power with Congress by covering up a shabby third-rate burglary. Had Watergate not happened, the denoument of the Vietnam War might have been very different.

I must say, with the clear vision that hindsight brings, that any plan that required Richard Nixon not to be a weasel did have some inherent design flaws.