It dragged on for years.
And it ended in that most abject of defeats, when all political and popular support at home has dried up, and when the penny has dropped that the local guerrillas are never going to go anywhere because they have nowhere else to go.
The Vietnam veterans were shunned for a long time. None of them has ever become President, and now none of them ever will.
By contrast, the people who opposed the war, even those who did everything short (if that) of backing the other side, came to be treated as having been right all along, and continue to be so treated.
By contrast, the people who opposed the war, even those who did everything short (if that) of backing the other side, came to be treated as having been right all along, and continue to be so treated.
The factual accuracy or even the morality of all of this is not the point. It is the political reality.
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