It's a shame that Democratic abandonment of anti-war has left the door open to Ron Paul types

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119. LBJ allowed the American people to believe that General Westmoreland's strategy

of 'attrition' was succeeding and would ultimately prevail, given enough time. This long after LBJ and those around him (like McNamara) knew the war could never be won in any way that a victory would mean anything worth winning. (That is, we could have used nuclear weapons on Hanoi but what would we have 'won,' given such a tactic?)

Tet '68 (and more specifically, Cronkite's after-battle assessment from Vietnam that there was a 'stalemate') gave the lie to that fiction and showed that the 'light at the end of the tunnel' that Westmoreland had said he saw in December of 1967 was the light of the locomotive of Vietnamese nationalism bearing down upon us.

That's in addition to all the various lies Westmoreland and his staff propagated about body counts, NLF and NVA troop strengths etc.