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Any tactical nuclear strike would have been so foolish. But if we would have gone in with the British(who wouldn't agree to such) back in 1954 during that siege....things may have been quite different.

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Yeah, we would have fought the Vietminh to an armistice by about 1965. And by '68 we'd be watching the same scenes we saw on TV in '75!

THE problem for us, with the side we were backing?

"Trade you some ARVN rifles for the hooker. Never fired and only dropped once."

Seriously, they fought the Chinese, the Japanese and the French.
What part of their tenacity and determination to be an independent nation were we not paying attention to?

And sure Ike was smart enough to see there was no appetite for another land war in Asia, so he punted.