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...tearing Vietnam apart. It did not deal with colonialism, other than to appropriate French heroes for its own purposes, nor did it talk about landholding patterns or the need to unionize the rubber workers. It had no vision of national independence and no call for political struggle. Ho Chi Minh and the first Vietnamese socialists who worked with him at the same time also lived in the same dissolving Vietnamese society, yet they were more accurate in both describing the reasons for the cataclysms and in charting a way out. The Viet Minh program of revolutionary nationalism, socialism and land...
There is as yet no American analogue to Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh. No coherent explanation for the current confusion has yet come forward. Traditional socialist analysis in the United States, borrowed from other areas of the world, is generally useless in explaining the current unrest. In its continued absence, some people in this country will turn to gurus and yogis, many more will just mill about in a bewildered ideological confusion...
...troops now estimated to number 60,000. American military advisers see no reason why the North Vietnamese should not comply. As one U.S. military expert puts it, "they can be back in Laos in 48 hours." Moreover, the North Vietnamese are no longer wholly dependent on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos as a supply route to South Viet Nam: Highway 14 across the Communist-controlled DMZ has been reopened...
...world, why did these people continue fighting? Who were these Vietnamese, and why did they rebuild bridges with their bare hands and go into battle against an enemy that was vastly superior in the weapons of modern War? Why did did they troop down the Ho Chi Minh trail, year after year, to face almost certain annihilation...
...signed this month. The plan ratifies Communist Pathet Lao control over 80% of Laos' land. The Pathet Lao also will have a nearly 50% share in its new government, which certainly will do nothing to interfere with North Viet Nam's use of the Ho Chi Minh Trail...