"No, the reason for the political action was self-serving people in the United States who made political hay out of opposition to the war."
Which started happening after about 1966, when the promises of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations (contrary to popular belief, prior to that time, US involvement in Vietnam was felt to be a good thing among the general public) began to dissolve with ever increasing troop allotments to Vietnam and increasing numbers of body bags coming back.
And who was sending those body bags back? The black PJ clad skinny guys with AK-47s.
It was the inability of the of American and ARVN forces to fully suppress the Vietcong in the South that allowed those political forces to build, not vice versa.
"It wasn't AK 47s that decided we couldn't go after the NVA in Laos, even when we could see lights on the Ko Rach, as they prepared to attack us."
As they prepared to attack us with AK-47s.
"It wasn't AK 47s that decided we couldn't go after the NVA in the Demilitarized Zone -- and my successor as commander of A Co, 1st Bn, 61st Infantry was killed by a mortar shell fired from inside the DMZ."
Lobbed by a mortar crew likely armed with AK-47s.
"It wasn't AK 47s that decided we couldn't go after the NVA in Cambodia."
Those NVA... you get the idea.
What you're failing to see, or ignoring altogether, are the differences I pointed out, that the AK-47 was perhaps more a weapon of international politics and firepower diplomacy than anything else, and in that role, just as did the Brown Bess, it played, and continues to play, a huge role worldwide.
I'm also detecting a faint whiff of homerism in this thread, where if it's Commie it's CRAP, but if it's good old Capitalist steel, worship it, boys, it's close to a god.