>>>North Vietnam in the end ruled the whole country. Hanoi was renamed to Ho Chi Minh. The army of the south was disbanded. The foreign aides fled. Nobody won?
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>>Let's face it though. US would have won if they'd just nuked a few cities. That's how they won WW II. All that power and can't use it. Like becoming a black-belt in karate but knowing that if you used it in self-defence you'd be thrown in prison, so you let yourself get beaten.
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>More like "and if you used it in any manner except showing off, you'll be cursed by anybody left alive now or in the future".

Exactly! Meanwhile you get your butt kicked and stones thrown at you. We all know that if a ferret were to sink its teeth into your hand you could easily crush its skull to stop it. But you don't; you go "OW! OW!" and try to tease it off. :-)