Re: Could We Have Won Vietnam?
chomsky says saigon was "jewel of the orient" or pearl or sometihng, well that part is history not his opinion, his opinion was that US wanted the good stuff in VN, the resouces and other stuff, and so US either wanted to control said resources, or deny them to others.
since US achieved goal 2 of denying them to others (ie, blew the hell out of the whole country), US won the war and achieved their objective.
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