Mark Moyar

In fact, almost none of them do.

And so now they're stuck in the cities.

And it's not easy for they don't you know, they're not familiar with the city, so they don't know where to go.

They can't just run away easily.

So they take crippling losses at the hands of American and South Vietnamese forces.

But you have an American media that focuses on just the magnitude of this, suggesting that they showed that they were

stronger than they were, which isn't really the case.

But again, Lyndon Johnson has mismanaged the war of ideas.

And some of the American hawks say, OK, this is like a Pearl Harbor moment.

We can tell the people there was this dastardly surprise attack, time to really, you know,

you know, take the shackles off, sending more troops.

But Johnson doesn't want to do that.

And so there again, you know, people that you have an opportunity to capitalize on this, you know, let's win the war sentiment.

But instead, he decides he doesn't want to do that.

And, you know, he ends up dropping out of the presidential race, partly because of Vietnam, partly for other reasons.

Yes, there's certainly, I think, a lot of truth to that.

Now, there is there were other opportunities, too, I think, because one of the central controversies of the war just was it something that could have been won or not.

And a lot of historians, especially on the left, will say, no, this was you can never have won it again, I think.

The Americans could have gone North Vietnam and maybe there was still been some resistance, but it would have been a much more manageable problem or that we could have cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

But you also do have towards the end of the war, the U.S.