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Further, weapons often cannot be classified as offensive or defensive. The automated battlefield itself was originally proposed as a defensive system stretching across the DMZ to half North Vietnamese infiltration and thereby to force a cease-fire. The scientist who conceived it hoped it would hasten peace in Indochina. Instead it is being used over large areas of Cambodia and Laos, as well as Vietnam to prolong the war even while the troops come home...
...Hanoi-Haiphong area in retribution for the North Vietnamese invasion provoked fresh editorial skirmishing between Administration critics and supporters. While the differences were as sharp as in the late '60s, hawkish editors and columnists seemed scarcer than before. Generally the hawks backed bombing as the means to hasten the U.S. pullout from Viet Nam, while doves dwelt on the dangers of deeper involvement in the fighting and confrontation with Moscow...
...order to buy time until the South Vietnamese could defend their own soil. To the Administration, however, the Communist attack was an opportunity as well as an uncertain challenge. The White House is convinced, as one official put it last week, that "if the Vietnamese fight well, this will hasten the end of the war considerably." In short, Washington felt-perhaps too optimistically-the fighting could mean an end to the stalemate, both on the battleground and at the Paris talks...
...hoped, he said, to force Hanoi to take it more seriously. He also sought to prove to critics that the U.S. had "gone the extra mile" in seeking an agreement and that the failure could be blamed solely on Communist intransigence. Whether Nixon's televised revelations actually would hasten the end of the war by bringing world opinion to bear against the Communists remained in grave doubt. The two sides seemed almost as far apart as ever, and the public spotlight may only have illuminated their differences and made accommodation more difficult...
Lest you confuse the skimpiness of the evidence in my article (for heritability of I.Q.) with skimpiness of evidence on the subject in general. I hasten to refer you to the following sampling...