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...greater reason to come to the conference table. Secure in the countryside and immune from interdiction by air, they could husband their forces and then assault the allied-held cities with far greater strength than they showed in the past two weeks. Nor is it true that the Viet Cong alone guard the grail of Vietnamese nationalism. They are simply better organized than the hopelessly fragmented moderates, who also qualify as genuine nationalists; and the V.C. are far more adept at the use of terror and brutality to gain their ends. Still, despite more than a few drawbacks, Galbraith...
...lieve that they were really going to take and hold the cities and towns and bring the war to a quick and victorious end. The South Vietnamese government was to be smashed. The Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) was expected to desert to the Viet Cong in wholesale units. The Communists confidently anticipated that the population would welcome the attackers in a great popular uprising. The result would leave the U.S. naked as Giap's only remaining antagonist in Viet...
...peasants have long recognized: the Communists' ruthless application of terrorism in waging war. The attackers were ordered to seek out and kill the families of all South Vietnamese officers they could find, as well as police and government officials and their families. In Saigon, a band of Viet Cong seized several civilians, including a Korean newspaperman and the information officer of the Korean embassy, blindfolded them and summarily shot them in a Cholon street...
...problem likely to plague South Viet Nam the longest is the widespread destruction of its cities, its towns, its homes. It was the Viet Cong's decision to bring the war into the midst of the cities, and the initial damage was wrought by Communist guns and mortars. But the bulk of the actual destruction occurred during the allied counterattacks to oust the Viet Cong. For allied commanders, these posed a grim dilemma that was summed up bluntly-and injudiciously-by a U.S. major involved in the battle for Ben Tre. "It became necessary to destroy the town...
...bringing such destruction into civilian areas, the Viet Cong lost more people than they gained. But the South Vietnamese government undoubtedly was tarred by the same brush. Saigon was blamed for not being able to keep the Viet Cong out of the cities in the first place-and then for having to devastate wide areas to get rid of the enemy. Who lost the more remains to be seen. "It depends," says the I Corps U.S. commander, Marine Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr., "on how fast the government provides assistance to rebuild homes, offices, roads and bridges...