Would you have nuked North Vietnam?

[dazzleman]

No.  But if it was worth fighting there (which is debatable), then I would have brought the war to the enemy.

It makes no sense to fight a war in your ally's territory, on the enemy's terms.  That's totally retarded, but that's what LBJ did in Vietnam.  If it's too costly to take the war to the enemy, then it's not worth fighting.

Even consistent bombing of the north, absent an invasion, would have been preferable to the way we fought the war.  But there's no reason that our ally should have had to fight a purely defensive war on their own territory while the north was sacrosanct.