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...temporarily stymied. Thieu's police watched over the urban areas, minimizing overt NLF organizing activities. The countryside was continually swept bare by saturation bombing and search-and-destroy operations...
...thrall. The opposite is in fact the case. The NLF achieved success because it effectively translated the aspirations of Vietnamese peasants for land reform and national unity into a program of revolutionary armed struggle. But now the time for fighting is over, and the liberation forces, unlike the Thieu regime, will profit from peace...
Then the Americans entered Vietnam in force and dramatically altered the NLF calculations. American Marines flooded ashore at Da Nang and U.S. warplanes aimed northward, freezing the political situation temporarily. By endorsing Thieu and Ky, the generals then in power in Saigon, and pouring millions of dollars into the country, distorting the economy into a dependence on the American presence, the U.S. involvement forced a stalemate. In order to reduce the NLF's social base, the U.S. terror-bombed the countryside and herded the villagers into cities...
Both the 1968 Tet Offensive and the 1972 North Vietnamese onslaught failed to topple the Thieu regime. Outside the cities, Thieu had no power, but within them his police held sway. His jails and tiger cages continued to fill with political prisoners, many of whom were charged only with being "neutralists." A stalemate reigned. Thieu could never eliminate the NLF and the North Vietnamese from the countryside. They had failed to eject him from the cities...
...Instead, the Agreement did provide for the U.S. to recognize the right of South Viet-Nam to settle their own affairs without American interference. If the Saigon regime is forced to abide by the provisions of the Agreement, the people of South Viet-Nam will be able to force Thieu out of office in a peaceful way. If General Thieu continues to violate the Agreement, the people of Viet-Nam will continue armed resistance. Under such a situation, the U.S. re-intervention would be purely agression in the context of the peace Agreement...