General Giap wrote about the aid that the Anti-War morons gave the NVA after the US crushed them after Tet. In fact, the Viet Cong in the South NEVER AGAIN was able to do anything, the US crushed them so bad. Vietnam would have been a WIN except for scumbags like Hanoi John and Jane, Chronkite the Chancer Sore, VVAW, Dan Blather, and a slew of other imbeciles who will roast in Hell for eternity over their role.
I just started to read, We Where Young...again last night. The forward of the book gives a scathing comment to those who turned on the troops when they returned.
I'm not sure of that. I think we were at a huge strategic disadvantage when Kennedy decided to focus the effort entirely on South Vietnam. Ike had tried to warn Kennedy during the transition that defending Laos was the key to securing the rest of Indochina. Once the North Vietnamese had set up supply lines and cross border bases in Laos and Cambodia, they could infiltrate South Vietnam at will, and easily supply the insurgency.
However... I agree that without the antiwar movement we could have concluded an honorable peace with the North Vietnamese years before '73, and -- most importantly -- the Commander-In-Chief would have had the political backing to enforce the agreement.
Even with huge handicaps, Nixon (via Kissinger) was able to secure an agreement that would have left North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces in the South to wither on the vine. But, of course, those who claimed to be for peace showed their true colors (they were for our enemies and for tyranny) by blocking enforcement of the peace agreements at every turn, and ensuring that Cambodia and South Vietnam where denied the ability to defend themselves. (Kerry even wanted us to abandon -- withdraw forces and aid -- from Thailand as well!)
These bastards and their treachery (or feckless stupidity) infuriates me more, not less, with every passing year.