He straight up said, and this is an exact quote “We could have won if we put the South Vietnamese on a ship, completely leveled the North, and sank the ship.” Literally calling for genocide and students in the class were like “Hmm… Yes… Hmmm… Good points from an expert.” It still haunts me a decade later.

I mean my understanding is that that was more or less the plan, and it still didn't work. :cap-think: