re: #363 albusteve

not sure…it revolved around Nixon and his feud with congress at the time…after we ruined the NVA, funding for air support was cut off and in 75 the renewed NVA took over…that had nothing to do with our victories

We lost Vietnam because, in the end, there simply was no support to see it go further. We routinely pounded the NVA to a pulp, but there was no visible gain to be made. By the time we finally pulled up sticks and left, it’d become essentially a stalemate, with no side making serious gains that would have seen an end to the fighting. It’s hard to argue for a continuation of a fight where the only thing people can see is money going in and pine coffins coming out.