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...country, by its avowed antagonism to the U.S. presence in South Asia. To this end, Sihanouk had permitted North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces to use eastern Cambodia as a staging ground for operations against Allied troops in South Vietnam. In the Administration's view, the anti-NLF regime of Lon Nol was far more amicable to America's goals in Indochina-the U.S. government extended diplomatic recognition to the military junta and the use of American spotter planes to its army within days after the coup...
...then another veteran got up to the microphone, and I was laughing again. This man wanted to speak to us about those NLF flag-wavers in this country. "These people would be happier in other countries." The crowd agreed vehemently. "Some say that 'Love it or leave it' is reactionary. I see nothing wrong with it." Someone pumped a "Love It or Leave It" sign up and down for all he was worth...
...then present his achievements to the American people: 150,000 American soldiers out of Vietnam, American casualties reduced to a half or a third of what they were under Johnson, and a cease-fire, which the NLF would find very difficult to break. Nixon then gets elected in 1972 and has four more years to put the Vietnamese in concentration camps...
...word, if the NLF continues to make it difficult for the United States to commit genocide on the people of South Vietnam, Nixon will respond by committing it on the North...
Everyone has read horror stories about the war. Some people are unable to read anymore of them. I figure that if the Vietnamese have to live through them, I should be able to read them. Every person who carries an NLF flag in a demonstration has probably internalized a thousand horror stories about the war. That's one of the reasons he's for the NLF...