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...NLF was officially founded on December...
...justified the practice of "forced-draft urbanization" in Vietnam. In the July 1968 issue of Foreign Affairs, Huntington explained that the National Liberation Front held the "good Maoist expectation that by winning the support of the rural population it could eventually isolate and overwhelm the cities," and that the NLF would "remain a powerful and effective force which cannot be dislodged from its constituency so long as its constituency exists." But the guerillas would be unable to resist the "modernizing instruments of bombs and artillery" which are "largely, if not exclusively [responsible for] the movement of the population into...
...that we should somehow want or be entitled to "raise Manila, up, up, up, until it is just like Kansas City." The U.S. ambassador to Saigon departed Viet Nam the way he would have entered 20 years before, in a helicopter from the embassy roof between rounds of NLF artillery fire. The image of a fleeing Graham Martin should have taught us a hard truth: that no matter how much we talked about indigenous liberal "democratic" elements in underdeveloped countries, and regardless of how much our bombadeers tried to convey the superiority of the free enterprise system, the people...
...news acquiesced to such suggestions by labeling NLF soldiers as "the enemy" in all accounts, Mariano says...
...reported for one side from the start," he says. "We attended NLF news conferences with a jaded view--these guys were the 'baby killers,' the 'rapers...