Some articles aim at that, I know. That's one reason I compiled this from quotes from a Main Player that is still influential, just like Kissinger is.
My main interest was the fact that we've decided that we can't fail to "win" in this. It's a Game to World Politicians that they don't lose chunks of their bodies in.
The comments about Russia/Soviets becoming demoralized and effectively bankrupted as a goal that was achieved should been flashing Red to us. We've had OUR VietNam, do we want another? Only worse.
Geez, I hate it when it comes to this. But it has.
You pique an anxiety that all of us share, especially those who remember and those who were there in Nam: Concerns about another Viet Nam and the quagmire of it all.
Nam was different, because of many factors.
Now we have been breached. Now we are the defenders.
Then we reached, almost as if to find a war or to fill a vacuum. "To keep the Cong from San Francisco," was actually a rallying cry from the Pentagon.
We weren't sure as a nation why we were in Nam.
We have no such doubt about our motives now.
Could this, still, become a quaigmire?
Of course it could.
Toughen up.