An Earlier Vietnam War As A "Police Action"

The premise: an earlier Vietnam War as a United Nations conflict, starting around say, 1957 or so...

Is the outcome any different than OTL with more countries involved a la Korea? Or do they pull out as the war goes on and the US finds itself more or less alone?
 
A number of nations were involved along with the United States, at least for some time.

Regardless, you can't win Vietnam, based on the warfare form and the resolve of the people. An army loses if it does not win; a guerrilla wins if he doesn't lose. The Vietnamese had been fighting oppressive regimes for a millenia when the US came along in the war, and the Vietnamese viewed the US as little different. They'd fought the Chinese, the French, and now were fighting the Americans and what they viewed as them just filling the French vacuum and setting up a puppet regime by keep South Vietnam up and running. The Vietnamese were also very dedicated to their cause. They had lost something of their population that would equate to some seventy million Americans, and were still willing to go on as they had for centuries before.
The Vietnamese were also fighting a different war than the US. The US treated it with a WW2 mindset; you go in, win by attrition, and then get victory by the surrender of the regime. The problem was, the war wasn't like that. It was an enemy who wasn't willing to surrender and who maintained full resolve, fighting with guerilla tactics, and in the war matters were not really based on states that had limited aims and could agree to them as in Korea and the World Wars; it was based on freedom fighters and a national resolve for independence. Were the US to conquer Hanoi, for example, the Vietnamese would just flee to the hills and fight on, now cast to the winds without any central authority to bargain with. So, while it often looked good on paper, and many apologists still say "Look at all those successes. If you'd only given a few more men and a few more years..." it's a false color image. The US was fighting for the same ground in 1971 as it had in 1970 and before in 1969 and before in 1968 and before in 1967 and before in 1967, etc, and the US could not win the war not out of some evil media liberalization of reporting (as if Vietnam was just as WW2 and all the other wars were like but the public just figured it out; while war is equally horrendous before, it was not equally unwinnable with all the psychological problems that comes with that) or some public which was surrendering victory for misguided optimism and ignorance or anything of the sort. The US could not win the war because it could not be won because of it's very design, and nothing anyone could do could win it. The Chinese and French had come to know this.
The best outcome would be a stalemate between North and South.
 
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