Throughout U.S. history, wars have almost invariably ended with a clear victor, a stirring surrender ceremony, and a touch of grandeur. There was Cornwallis capitulating at Yorktown; Lee yielding to Grant; the bowed Japanese aboard the Missouri. But Viet Nam, it is all too apparent, is a war unlike any other that the U.S. has ever had to fight. Accordingly, U.S. policymakers last week were sifting several shreds of evidence that may hint at a different and less dramatic conclusion.
One was the news that the Viet Cong had sought last September to...
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