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It was actually a tactical defeat for the Viet Cong. However, Americans watching the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese infiltrating Saigon on TV realized there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
This was the beginning of the end. A very long, costly end that cost way too many American lives.
If you want to understand Vietnam read Graham Greene's The Quiet American written 10 years before we arrived in Da Nang. The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam and Frances Fitzgerald's Fire In The Lake are very good books.
google the term "Mandate of Heaven"
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