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...some kind of submission--as the President apparently believes--is sheer folly. The Soviet Union and a strife-torn Communist China will not permit even the appearance of this to occur. And if Johnson were fortunate enough to force the North Vietnamese to cut drastically their aid to the NLF, there is no reason to believe that the Viet Cong insurrection could be quelled to the point where a civilian regime could effectively govern the South...
...Schlesinger Jr. let loose his thunderbolt against Dean Rusk last Sunday, the liberal wing of the Democratic Party at last found its target. The assault began on February 17th when Senator Robert Kennedy criticized the Johnson Administration for a lack of realism in refusing to negotiate directly with the NLF, and the attack continued when John Kenneth Galbraith appeared before the Fulbright Committee and called for a "new generation" of statesmen. Schlesinger's salvo, however, cleverly emphasized party unity by dissociating the President from the Administration's foreign policy and resting the blame squarely on the Secretary of State...
Lacouture thinks that the North can't negotiate for the NLF, because the Front prizes too highly its desire for independence. What the United States should do is to try to isolate the NLF and try to integrate it into a South Vietnamese coalition. American bombing and the refusal to deal directly with the Front solidify an unnatural union with the North...
Ideologically, the Buddhists oppose the National Liberation Front, with its predominantly Marxist beliefs. But the Buddhists have given aid to the NLF because it represents the people's armed revolt against foreigners. When peace finally comes, they intend to replace the NLF and become the pacifying agents...
...this reason, Lacouture would like to see a coalition government in Saigon, comprised of representatives of the Buddhists. Catholics, NLF, and other power blocks. Such a coalition is feasible, he stated, because, "a process of democratization is at play in Vietnam...