12. Yeah, but the Russians aren't arming the insurgents
The Vietnam war was so bloody because the Soviets (and later the Chinese) spent $1B a year arming the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. Same thing happened in the other direction in Afghanistan; the insurgents were about to quit before we started pouring money in there in '84.
IF we can get a State department competent enough to keep the Iranians and Syrians from full-fledged government backing for the insurgents, the civil war there will die down to Northern Ireland levels, and we can declare victory and get the heck out. A big IF, but not one that existed in 1965.
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