The support of the majority of Americans to the war in Vietnam began to go down in October 1967 (March 1965: 64 percent supporting, 21 percent opposed; October 1967: 46 percent opposed, 44 percent supporting). Just as the war seemed to go on endlessly and aimlessly, America’s patience ran out.
Since March 1966 the A Sầu Valley had evolved into a major logistics depot for the PAVN. WI the US Army had launched an operation in August 1967 to disrupt it and, during the fighting, there had been a battle like the one for Hill 937 (same losses, same mistakes, same final result)? How would the public opinion back in the States have dealt with it? Would it have been so controversial? Would some US senator still have called it a "’senseless and irresponsible…madness…"?
Since March 1966 the A Sầu Valley had evolved into a major logistics depot for the PAVN. WI the US Army had launched an operation in August 1967 to disrupt it and, during the fighting, there had been a battle like the one for Hill 937 (same losses, same mistakes, same final result)? How would the public opinion back in the States have dealt with it? Would it have been so controversial? Would some US senator still have called it a "’senseless and irresponsible…madness…"?