[AmericanVictory]

No, the Cambodian shutdown worked, particularly on Sihanoukville, and with the cooperation of Lon Nol. The faltering was later, with regard to doing the same in Laos, and earlier, when LBJ decided to not allow the taking out of North Vietnam early on. The ultimate fatal error by Nixon and Kissinger, however, was not making the North Vietnamese regular army (with Soviet tanks and Chinese in the ranks) leave South Vietnam after they came in through the DMZ while we were giving things away at the negotiating table on the foolish theory that being weak would cause them to do the opposite of what they did.--

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yes, but how many American troops died because of American inaction on the HCM trail, in Cambodia, Svay Reng, Parrot's Beak, Prey Veng regions, you name it? That is what I am getting at.

Our surgical action was way too late to save the lives of all those American kids hit when the VC would come over into the RVN and get their kills and lickety split back to 'neutral' Sihanouk's safe territory (I'm talkin' pre-Lon Nol of course).