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Nguyen Van Thieu and the American government should recognize that communist domination of Vietnam is inevitable, even if they are not prepared to admit it is a good thing. That kind of shift in attitude will be a difficult one especially considering the closed mind of President Ford, a knee-jerk anti-considering, and his advisers. The Ford administration's position seems to be a reactive one not well thought-out or borne out by past experience. It involves urging huge amounts of military aid for a government that has been consistently unpopular corrupt and suppressive of the basic freedom...
...most important thing for the Thieu government and the United States to accept is the idea that the NLF and the People's Revolutionary Government will be controlling South Vietnam and will need and deserve reconstructive aid. Thieu's government should stop trying to hold on to Saigon: surrender will avoid needless bloodshed. And the United States should focus it efforts on massive humanity aid to be administered by the PRG in its attempt to rebuild the shattered nation. If people want to leave Vietnam the should be allowed to but the primary American responsive now is to help...
...bias verged on the ridiculous. To Time magazine, the Saigon government's abandonment of half its country was "a gritty gamble," a "historic rearrangement of the Vietnamese political map" to be celebrated with an in-depth look at the government's head: "As both soldier and politician, Nguyen Van Thieu has fought the Communist menace from the North, and it remains his abiding passion today." Similarly, U.S. News and World Report reassured its readers--in suitably muted tones--that "a long, costly investment of American lives and treasure" was not "about to go down the drain." The "air of gnarled...
...conquest of Ban Me Thuot received some play, but no one pointed out that the tribesmen--however ripe Time now considers them for Communist exploitation--generally fought in the past for France and the United States. Is the apparent Montagnard defection another sign of the end of Thieu, a portent of a new national Vietnamese unity that will embrace racial minorities or just a matter of different groups of tribesmen? The Guardian, a Maoist news weekly, claimed that a French reporter killed last week by Saigon police was silenced for attempting to discuss Montagnard defection to the NLF. Maybe that...
Kissinger is obviously still deeply and emotionally involved with Viet Nam and believes sincerely that the U.S. has a moral commitment to continue aiding South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu. Yet Kissinger's critics argue that had he pressed harder for a political settlement in Viet Nam during the past year or so, the present situation might have been averted, regardless of his previous achievement in extricating the U.S.from...