Quote Originally Posted by World's End Stella View Post
The Americans spent the better part of 10 years trying to get to the point that they did not have the means to resist, and failed. More bombing and more men would not have changed that. As McNamara said, and I paraphrase, 'we significantly under-estimated the desire of the North Vietnamese to unite the country'.

Everything you've posted is consistent with Westmoreland's view on the war. And it was proven to be incorrect.
How could it be proven incorrect since it was never tried? The Americans fought the war with one hand tied behind their backs. They couldn't stop the movement of men and munitions along the Ho Chi Minh trail because they weren't prepared to go into Cambodia and Laos in sufficient numbers - let alone into North Vietnam. Only by fighting an untrammelled war irrespective of boundaries could the US possibly have won.