We Can Win in Southeast Asia

A firsthand observer found that Americans fighting in Southeast Asia do not agree with defeatists at home who say we must get out because we can’t win

As long ago as 1963, the New Republic was saying: “The war in South Vietnam cannot be won.” More recently, Walter Lippmann, the oracle of retreat, solemnly declared: “Nobody in his right mind can imagine that this kind of war can be ‘won’.” Prof. Bernard B. Fall, author of Ordeal at Dien Bien Phu, and The Two Vietnams, lends his authority to the statement that “any lingering idea that the Vietnam war can be ended by the surrender of the Communists is totally unrealistic.”

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A firsthand observer found that Americans fighting in Southeast Asia do not agree with defeatists at home who say we must get out because we can’t win

As long ago as 1963, the New Republic was saying: “The war in South Vietnam cannot be won.” More recently, Walter Lippmann, the oracle of retreat, solemnly declared: “Nobody in his right mind can imagine that this kind of war can be ‘won’.” Prof. Bernard B. Fall, author of Ordeal at Dien Bien Phu, and The Two Vietnams, lends his authority to the statement that “any lingering idea that the Vietnam war can be ended by the surrender of the Communists is totally unrealistic.”