Which Was More Winnable: Vietnam or Afghanistan?

A Vietnam war with modern media censourship perhaps? During the wars in the Gulf the Pentagon choosed what the media had access to. In Vietnam the media acted on their own. Then the public is unaware of much of the problems and the opposition to the war is less than it was

We had might tighter media control in Vietnam then now even without wartime controls.
 

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Pardon me for getting off the subject in my previous posts. The Soviets likewise were not defeated on the battlefield, and could potentially still be in Afghanistan had they not gone bankrupt, and had they been willing to make the continued commitment of resources. As with the US in Vietnam, it's doubtful that they would be any closer to victory.

Weren't the Republic of Vietnam and the Republic of Afghanistan able to do a fairly decent job holding their ground (in the case of Afghanistan, even coming close to defeating the insurgency) even after the United States and Soviet withdrawals until their logistics system broke down from a lack of support? In other words, if the United States and Soviet Union had maintained support for their client states could they have survived?
 
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