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...have been reported captured or missing in action. No nation releases prisoners before the fighting stops. After the French left Vietnam, all their prisoners were returned. The real prisoner issue in Vietnam concerns not the captive Americans, but the political prisoners kept in South Vietnamese "tiger cages" and the NLF soldiers who are tortured and then killed. Only when the Americans leave Vietnam can all of the prisoners still alive be free again...
...course there is a strong argument that the South Vietnamese government is not morally defensible. But supporters of the NLF notwithstanding, the argument that Thieu's regime is worse than its enemy from the north is highly questionable. Even conceding that the United States should never support such an immoral government (which policy would save money now going to totalitarian regimes in Russia and China), there are serious problems in McGovern's plans for Vietnam. After unilateral American withdrawal, it is hard to see why the North Vietnamese would have to release their prisoners of war. They might; but McGovern...
...will release its prisoners until the war is over. Once the Indochina war ends satisfactorily, the North Vietnamese would be inconceivably stupid to retain American prisoners and needlessly inflame American public opinion. The American government, which is engaging in mass terror on an unprecedented scale, likes to point to NLF terror. It is true that the NLF has assassinated carefully selected Saigon officials. It is also true that while the American and Saigon terror have lost support for the perpetrators, the NLF terror has built support by eliminating hated outsiders, who usually were foisted on a village by the central...
America is only the last and most powerful of the enemies that have opposed Vietnamese in dependence for the last hundred years Three years ago The Crimson announced its support for the NLF. Since that time, the removal of American draftees from combat and the repeated, reasonable offers of the Provisional Revolutionary Government and the NLF for a coalition government can only reinforce our conviction. The cruel trick of Vietnamization has proven that calling for the end of the war is not enough. Most Americans think the war is ending, although in fact it is escalating...
...United States suspended the talks on May 4, near the beginning of the North Vietnamese-NLF offensive in South Vietnam...