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...radicals and revolutionaries, the situation is now impossibly confused. Poorly organized splinter group actions have brought down repression on a "class" that can little afford it. And no blow has been struck that might conceivably hasten the day when the primary oppressive forces in our society no longer exist. Yet in sponsoring repression, the merchants have inevitably betrayed the nature of their interest in the Square, and their inevitable allies...
Will the raids hasten or slow up Vietnamization? The clearing of the sanctuaries should provide, for six months at least, a valuable measure of relief for the southern half of South Viet Nam, especially in the Mekong Delta, where 60% of the rural population lives. On the other hand, the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam has shown itself only too eager to conduct the war outside its own country; its operations in Cambodia have greatly raised its morale. But if Saigon commits large numbers of men to fighting in Cambodia, the job of bringing security to South Viet...
...then, it appears that President Nixon acted in Cambodia on the advice of his generals that here was a relatively cheap and opportune way to hurt the enemy and thus secure if not hasten U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam. An ancillary benefit might be the propping up of the Lon Nol government. The short-run military objectives have been achieved, at considerably less cost in U.S. lives than military planners anticipated. In the long run, the fate of the Lon Nol government hangs largely on the whim of Hanoi-which is why, in all his justifications of the border crossing...
...involving, the largest numbers of people. By the sheer weight of numbers that can be assembled at a given time and place, the movement gains credibility and visibility... The job of the anti-war movement is to educate, organize and mobilize tens of millions of people to hasten the day when those with the power to change governmental policy use that power...
...will decrease hydro-carbons by about 50 per cent, it will decrease oxides of nitrogen about 30 per cent on average and carbon monoxide some 35 per cent. This in itself will again hasten the decline of pollution in the atmosphere...