Yes, and George W. Bush had seven years in office - three more years than it took America to defeat the Japanese Empire - in which to wipe them out. He failed miserably.
As my dad used ta say, "If you're gonna step on a rattlesnake, you'd best make sure to kill it."
Many of us asked , if we were in Vietnam to win the war, why were there so few of us? And if we were not there to win, then why were we there?