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You need rolling thunder type levelling to get out of this one.
But what did that achieve in Vietnam (apart from, as Dropbear noted) an awful lot of civilian casualties and unexploded bombs still buried over northern Vietnam? The US lost in Vietnam and withdrew.
Anyway, the US did try that in Afghanistan - it ran carpet bombing missions using B-52s back in the years after the US first invaded. It seemed to work about as well as it did in Vietnam.