I guess all those bodies coming back from Vietnam and all the soldiers suffering from toxins and gas must have been the fault of the TV set
There was no rationale for a 520,000 man expeditionary force in Vietnam unless it was going to be used correctly - which was never a possibility.
Johnson’s excuse for all the pain - “to prove we are serious”, and then not to act seriously, put Nixon in the White House. Nixon’s unwillingness to “cut and run” à la Afghanistan, to have “peace with honor”, killed more Americans to no good end.