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...pull all of the American, troops back behind the battlements and cease a lot of the American ground attacks. "Vietnamization" means supplying guns as fast as we can make them to the South Vietnamese army and then putting a butter of South Vietnamese troops between the attacking NLF and the Americans-in order to cut American casualties...
...turns out, the Dulles strategy was better after all. The U.S. has ceased most of its ground activity in South Vietnam and is simply bombing the whole country. The areas friendly to the NLF, which are now more than 80 per cent of the South, will be bombed until they are totally isolated from each other and can no longer receive medical supplies, ammunition, or information. The idea is to kill enough Vietnamese so that the NLF has to understand that the U.S. wouldn't hesitate to kill them all. Then the NLF will have to call a cease-fire...
Sometimes the bored Defense Department public relations officers make an effort, yawn, to explain that the U.S. is only bombing the NLF supply lines in Laos. But as Noam Chomsky points out, it is difficult to defend the bombing of population centers and civilian targets in Northern Laos by saying that the U.S. is bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Northern Laos is at the opposite end of the country. Chomsky interviewed one Laotian refugee in a concentration camp outside of Vientiane recently who told him that the U.S. had bombed his village and forced them to move into...
Finally, Huntington lists additional means whereby the U. S. can ensure the outcome it desires. Among these are support of populist non-communist leaders that undercut NLF support (Peron and Rojas Pinilla are cited as examples), U. S. control over national media, and the use of bribes and "perk-barrel" projects...
Huntington has come to accept official U. S. ideology as truth, and consequently misrepresents real situations. For example, he consistently portrays the NLF as a far smaller group than it is, and attributes their success to organizational factors to an unwarranted degree. Such inaccuracies lead him to place too much emphasis on the possibility of inducing the NLF to accept a negotiated settlement which would leave an American presence and the Saigon government intact. Huntington imports the cliches produced for mass propaganda (subversion, invasion, even South Vietnamese military success) into his analysis. Doing so reduces his ability to produce correct...