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...victory of the Vietnamese people in shaking off a hundred years of French colonialism and of the NLF in defeating the half million American troops sent to stop them must not now obscure our memories of Vietnam. The official American response--that we need not try to learn from Vietnam but must now look toward the future, and that there should be a moratorium on recriminations--must not be heeded. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's statement, that the U.S. should not help rebuild North Vietnam--a country he did as much as anyone to destroy--must be disregarded...
...dissidents--and they were trained and supported by American aid, $125.8 million between 1967 and 1972, with some being trained at the International Police Academy in Washington, D.C. Former participants in the Phoneix Program are another group likely to be rejected if there is a screening process. They assassinated NLF officials and people accused of being NLF officials, and the program was heavily financed and advised by the U.S.--In 1971. William E. Colby testified at Congressional hearings that the--Phoenix program--which was under his direction--was "an essential element of Vietnam's defense against Vietcong subversion and terrorism...
...hope and believe that there will be no "bloodbath" in Vietnam. Our belief is strengthened by the indications available so far, such as the PRG's stated program, most Catholic clergy's choosing to remain in NLF-held areas as they did not in 1954, and the reports of newspaper people and refugees about NLF-held cities where life is said to have returned to normal. It seems likely that the PRG will retaliate only against high-ranking Saigon officials personally responsible for large-scale torture and for continuing the war. Most of these people have probably already found well...
...Diem's government became apparent to American liberals, the United States became the main support of a series of equally repressive and ineffective Saigon governments. That the repression and ineffectiveness were more than accidents--that they were two necessary consequences of the popular support and increasing strength of the NLF--was a secret carefully kept from the American people, just as their government's massive bombing of neutral Cambodia would be kept a secret at a later stage of the war. But just as the Cambodians would know they were being bombed, the real nature of the American intervention...
...OFFICIAL American response to the events of the last week--to the gratuitous criminality of inventing new methods of destruction for a cause whose hopelessness was clear, as well as to the NLF's triumph over everything the United States had hurled against it--was to call for forgetfulness, for a moratorium on recriminations, for an end to the story of Vietnam Kissinger simply said that the United States should not help to rebuild North Vietnam--a country he did as much as anyone to destroy--and went on to the next subject...