"absolute horsehit" describes the premise of the referenced post, that the US could have prevailed in Vietnam, eloquently and economically. An American "victory" in 2003 would resemble (A) the surface of the moon, or (B) Vietnam 1969, with urban centers and "strategic hamlets" under nominal government control by day, and the nights and the countryside in firm possession of the resistance; hundreds of thousands of US troops in occupation and the bars & bordellos of Saigon roaring along. The Vietnamese (still provisioned by China and, in all likelihood, a still-intact USSR) were never going to give up and go home for the simple reason that they were home already.

cordially,