Nope. They should have fought harder. The problem is, like the Afghans, they were taking our money as long as we were giving it out, but the minute they had no more US money to steal, they just dropped their weapons.
55 days. That's how long it took the North to invade the South. The South only took 30,000 dead out of one million soldiers we had spent a decade training.
For sales- 1 million ARVN rifles. Never fired, only dropped once.
Again, you are confused. Humphry didn't lose because of the "black ghetto riots". The people who were upset about that voted for Wallace.
The problem was that Humphrey said he would continue the war. He didn't come out against the war until the last minute.
Now, it might have been interesting what would have happened had RFK lived and gotten the nomination. But that's all speculation.
The point was that the RVN was always a useless quisling state and was going to fall the minute Americans stopped propping it up, which is exactly what happened. This is what Nixon realized fairly quickly. The only difference is that perhaps RFK or Humphrey wouldn't have bombed the snot out of Cambodia, Laos, and North Vietnam in the process of trying to find "peace with honor".
Okay, yes, when you are accepted into a country, you should be grateful.
When you are dragged over as slaves and mistreated for centuries, maybe not so much.