Nixon won the peace in Vietnam, and we were poised to back up that peace via a huge club based in Thailand & Guam (B-52's).
After Watergate swept the antiWar McGovern/Kerry wing of the (D)s into congress they surrendered it.
I am convinced Kerry would do the same in Iraq.
Exactly. His people "lost the peace" deliberately. People not alive then cannot understand how illogical the left was, how much it hates America, how much it HAD to see America and its allies defeated. But Americans NEVER elected a McGovernite even in the midst of that war. Now they might.