I expected to see Ho Chi Minh spinning in his glass coffin when we visited him in Hanoi, but he appeared to be serene in the face of the collapse of his revolution through what might be termed the Great Bourgeois Cultural Revolution.
Freedom is a contagion that spreads on its own; it is a self-replicating bacteria; but it cannot be weaponized and spread by warfare.
The situation in Afghanistan is much more complex and difficult, and the lessons of Vietnam may not be applicable. But we should at least be clear about what those lessons are.
So, remove the "(Could Have)." "How We Won in Vietnam" was by ending the war.
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