Good afternoon Brits, Can y`all help this yank understand?

No NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.. don't think like that.. those peasant farmers didn't beat you militarily what beat you was your own public conscience and seeing the death and destruction on TV each night. Remember that young Vietnamese girl running down the road badly burned by napalm? well images like that is wat beat you.. and the 58000 dead grunts... and dare i say public apathy of a 10 year war. The fact is the US could have won in vietnam if it had being willing to go that further step towards total war... in the end it wasn't prepared to bomb hanoi and other cities into the stone age, or was it prepared to risk nuclear confrontation with the soviets or chinks .. if it had have been much vietnam would be smouldering radioactive dust pile.