Vietnam won or lost?

[Final-Fan]

mrstickball said:

Final-Fan said:

mrstickball said:
I found a neat interview concerning the war:

According to post-war interviews with NVA generals, the North was ready to surrender after our bombing campaigns in 1972-73. However, due to the anti-war movement of people like Fonda meeting with the North, they realized that America was on the brink of defeat due to internal struggles, and pressed on until we fled. Had the anti-war movement not been so radical, we would have won.

The more I think about this, the more interested I get!  Source plz? 

http://www.grunt.com/scuttlebutt/corps-stories/vietnam/north.asp
Lots of good stuff on why we lost, straight from the friggin' source - an NVA colonel. This interview has been sourced many, many times. I need to find the other interviews of other NVA leaders, but the major citation about the resolve of the Vietnamese centers around Kerry and Fonda protesting the war - the NVA knew that since that was going on, that the US lacked the resolve to actually win.

That's pretty devastating.  But I think your nested post should say "had the anti-war movement not existed".  What I got from that was that negative American PR was literally a key part of their strategy.  Fonda's visit was a coup but not a turning point. 

Additionally, he makes no mention of being seriously set back by bombing of the Ho Chi Minh trail.  But he does suggest that we could have crushed them after the spectacular military failure of the Tet offensives if we hadn't started to withdraw just when they were at their weakest.  (1969-70).