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American pilots who in one year have forged a brilliantly successful new tactical role for air power over Viet Nam, showed last week that the U.S. can indeed succeed. On the ground, American fighting men are not only taking on wily veterans of guerrilla warfare but are also inflicting losses that no foe can afford to take indefinitely. Yet in the long run, the kind of success envisaged by the President can be earned only by the nation that is most determined to win—at any price. The time for magnanimity, as the U.S. finally made clear last week, is at the conference table.