Mark Moyar

decides to cut off aid to South Vietnam.

But South Vietnam is actually getting better over time.

And so that was another problem.

missed opportunity.

And then the one other huge missed opportunity was this coup in 1963.

I think had we not done that and sort of torn the government apart, it never would have gotten to the level that it gets to.

Because Congress is getting fed up with the war.

It's also happens coincides with Watergate.

And so Congress is getting angry at Nixon.

Nixon has promised that he'll go help the South Vietnamese.

But because of Watergate, his hands are tied and you have

increasingly large anti-war sentiment within Congress, who thinks and has a very benign view of Vietnamese communism and unduly harsh, I think, view of our Vietnamese allies.

Or is that not true?

Nixon actually has been very mindful of this, and he actually will end the draft for that reason.

And so he does take that issue away.

I do think a lot of the hesitation and reluctance

is because of this draft issue.

In fact, when you look at how the war is written, a lot of the people who dodged the draft end up becoming very harsh critics of the war.

But towards the end, you know, it's not a big, you know, the draft is no longer an issue, but it's part of it's just, you know, some people are saying, you know, we're tired of this.

We need money for other things.