Right, the same old song, sung infinitely in the pitch of high whine.
'We wuz stabbed in the back!'
It was the Dems that wanted Vietnam to fail, ignoring the fact that it was Kennedy who got into Vietnam in the first place and Johnson who escalated it. Yes, the Dems really wanted to lose, that's why they threw all those hundreds of thousands of men and billions of dollars into Vietnam.
Certainly defeat had nothing to do with the rank corruption and incompetence of the South Vietnamese regime, which after fifteen years of massive American support still couldn't function effectively or win the support of its own people.
Certainly defeat had nothing to do with a Pentagon which frittered away over 50,000 American lives, in a war in which a tenth of the Vietnamese population were killed, and in which the US government dropped more bombs on a tiny country than were dropped in all of WWII, a Pentagon which lied to the American people, which had no actual strategy or approach to win the war at all.
So much easier to blame the dastardly dems, curling their waxed mustaches and tying Vietnamese virgins to to the Ho Chi Minh highway.
It's an interesting issue to ask what would have happened if a particular decision would have been made differently, as with the Central Highlands Retreat.
On the other hand, a whole song of 'We wuz stabbed in the back' kind of ignores most of the realities on the ground - those realities being that the US effort was ten years and millions of men and billions of dollars in going nowhere fast, and South Vietnam kept on growing more incompetent, corrupt and ineffective every year.
Bored