Exactly right. Try was the moment Westy was waiting for in which the Communists came out and were annihilated by the superiority in firepower.
Of course the optics of it looked horrible due to the bs pandering LBJ did about the war effort. Westy wanted to chase after them in Laos and kill them off once and for all, but politics prevented it.
Of course all of the battlefield victories were mooted by the Communist take over of academia.
Tet, not try. Stupid autocorrect.
“Westy wanted to chase after them in Laos and kill them off once and for all, but politics prevented it.”
Even so, the Viet Cong were never again the force they had been.