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Cohen reminded Bundy of Secretary of State Dean Rusk's request to the Viet Cong to lay down their arms and join the free elections...
...then reportedly quickened his rapid fire delivery and pulled his case together. The Secretary of State, Cohen said, was therefore excluding the Viet Cong from ever holding power because, as Bundy himself had just admitted, the U.S.-supported government would run future elections, thus maintaining itself in power. The Administration, therefore, was calling for the surrender of the enemy without demonstrating any willingness to make any real concessions. Cohen then asked if this didn't prove that the U.S. was not really ready to negotiate...
...proposals call for a pause in the bombing of the North and reduction of U.S. "search-and-destroy" operations in the South. Cutting back search-and-destroy efforts would reduce the U.S. to a static defense posture little different from the enclave stance. These swift, surprise sweeps of Viet Cong territory have kept the guerrillas off-balance, deprived them of sanctuaries they have used for years, and prevented any large-scale attacks for three months...
...CONTINUE THE PRESENT STRATEGY. Those who support a continuation of the Administration's course argue that its policies have just begun to pay off. When the U.S. went into Viet Nam in force 30 months ago, its object was to avert an imminent Viet Cong victory. Now, says Westmoreland, "the enemy is in the worst posture he has been in since the war started." Admittedly, pacification is lagging woefully, and the South's army, officered largely by opportunists or languid political appointees, is a major weakness. Nonetheless, the Communists have lost ten times more men than...
...I.V.S. team in Viet Nam. It developed only after months of soul-searching and internal maneuvering with the official U.S. AID superstructure in Saigon. Luce and his colleagues objected primarily to the "over-Americanization" of the war effort since mid-1965, felt that air and artillery strikes in Viet Cong country, by creating more refugees, were only prolonging the war and destroying the fabric of Vietnamese society. "Protesters usually put emphasis on napalm and other so-called atrocities," said Luce. "Destroying the family structure is the most dangerous thing. Look at the kids around bars who ask for Salems...