Many conservatives still live with the fond illusion that if we had only “put everything we had” into Vietnam

Many conservatives still live with the fond illusion that if we had only “put everything we had” into Vietnam,

we could have “won the war.” What is this supposed to mean? Sure we could have leveled the country and

everything in it, but “pacifying” it? That would have meant staying another 30 years.

I have heard this line my entire life–the hippie protesters/liberal politicians/Communist media kept us from

winning! And it’s complete BS, as I recognized some time around, oh, my ninth birthday. The sort of “winning”

referred to simply means defeating the NVA/Viet Cong at any cost, which would have meant the utter annihilation

of Vietnam and its neighbors. That would have been hard to sell as liberation, even for Henry Kissinger. So

props to Tucker for having the guts to point that out, even though I still think he’s a kook.