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Originally Posted by Confed999
They kept the war from being fought like a war, and allowed NV to regroup and rebuild after being literally smashed more than once, instead of allowing it to be ended.
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The US did not lose the war militarily. The US never lost a major battle. However, the political battle was lost before the US put a single division in-country. The South hated their goverment. To them, the government represented the hated French colonial occupation. Why? Because the government was run by Vietnamese backers of the French Colonials. They were trained in France and were more familiar with French culture than with the culture of their own country.
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Like the US is still in Germany, Japan and South Korea?
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Germany and Japan were never colonies of another country. South Korea had briefly been a Japanese colony, but threw off the yoke. There was never an insurgency to speak of in any of these countries. The people of these countries backed their government (grudgingly, in the case of S. Korea). Most importantly, the people of these countries saw the US presence as protection against their Communist neighbors. They saw this protection as desirable.
None of this was true in Vietnam.