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Newspaper editorials expressed similar views. The Pittsburgh Press wrote: "Saigon's battlefield performance has been so miserable and panicky that one cannot believe that more aid would have changed the outcome." Said the Chicago Tribune: "Surely a moral commitment does not mean an obligation to help a country bleed to its last...
...benevolence of God or the Times's well placed friends to see that the "scenes of blood and horror" that "stun the emotions and make imagination a beggar" didn't recur somewhere else. In the meantime, the Times suggested that Indochina be seen "as an earthquake, not a battlefield...
Besides, a lack of materiel is only part of Saigon's military problem. Even in the days when it had virtually unlimited ordnance, transport and firepower, ARVN was never as effective on the battlefield as were the Communist armies. Even today, though it no longer enjoys an overwhelming superiority in firepower, ARVN still outnumbers the Communists by some 3 to 1. Incompetent leadership, corruption, profiteering by officers and low pay for enlisted men often sapped the strength of Saigon's forces. True, because of the American involvement, Saigon has a far better fighting force than it had earlier...
Washington believes that three more years of military and economic aid-totaling from $3.5 billion to $4 billion-would enable Saigon to establish a battlefield equilibrium. This would set the stage for political talks between the opposing sides, as called for in the 1973 Paris Peace Accords...
...defense attachés go out to the battlefield as the eyes and ears of the embassy. They check casualties and assess the army's front-line reports. You don't read about this in the newspapers, but they see full colonels fighting like hell and getting wounded. The army has done a good job defending Phnom-Penh. But it needs more recruits. Students, who are so vocal, always telling the government what it's doing wrong, are still exempt from the draft. The government has to be more energetic, more dynamic to get people into...