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...begin with, there was the survival of the regime in Saigon. It was a regime that past American policy-makers had installed and then sworn to uphold, and though the new American leaders probably had little real use for General Thieu-and were suffering the domestic consequences of what little use they had-they also felt it essential that no American policy precipitate the collapse of the South Vietnamese regime. For that would impugn their honor and damage their credibility, and those were concepts that did not come cheap to them. And in the absence of the regime's guaranteed...
...Cambodia was an incontestable expression of a policy that the Administration had been following all along: escalation and graduated threat. As a result of the action, allied forces are now fighting in Cambodia, and the United States has been committed to a defense of Lon Nol as well as Thieu-Ky. And the invasion was a jumping-off point for other aggressive actions by which the United States has simultaneously attempted to demonstrate its strength and unpredictability: a brutal bombing raid on North Vietnam last November and the ground invasion of Laos by the South Vietnamese last February...
THOSE the U.S. is not trying to kill it is making into soldiers or cops, or is throwing into concentration camps. In 1960 the Diem regime had 16,000 police, Today, the Thieu-Ky-Khiem regime has 97,000 policemen, Current American projections call for a Saigon police force of 147,000, with 120,000 cited as the goal for the end of 1972. Clearly, at least some American advisers foresee the continuation of the reactionary clique's grip over the country extending into 1973 and beyond...
...chance for what? To maintain the fourth largest army in the world? Or to allow American oil companies the security needed to explore and possibly develop off-shore oil deposits? Or is it merely a chance for Thieu and Ky to continue to deny to the South Vietnamese needed social and economic change? Or is it to allow the U.S. to maintain a land base in Asia against an imagined threat from China? Richard Nixon refuses to speak publicly about such issues. He prefers to talk about "freedom" and "democracy" and "self-determination" and an "honorable peace...
Bending over backward to avoid charges of American meddling, Secretary of State William Rogers has ordered U.S. personnel in Saigon to observe "strict neutrality" during the campaigning. But in fact, the U.S. is backing Thieu. And even if the U.S. could adopt a convincing hands-off posture, such a situation would only favor the status quo -which, again, is Nguyen Van Thieu...