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Current clients include India, China, Cuba, Viet Nam, Syria, Iran and, biggest of all, Muammar Gaddafi's Libya. A large-scale purchaser on its own, Libya has long been known to be a conduit for Czechoslovak-made arms to such terrorist groups as Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council, Italy's Red Brigades and the Irish Republican Army...
...Looking back on the Viet Nam War, what second thoughts do you have...
Eisenhower and I were once talking in 1967; Eisenhower felt we should declare war. He said, "You can declare war, then you can handle all these debaters and the bomb throwers." But the problem with declaring war was that the Russians and the Chinese both had treaties with North Viet...
...declaration of war didn't appeal. But I was also thinking of what we could do after Viet Nam. It was essential to have a new relationship with the Russians, have a new relationship with the Chinese, and I felt that at that time, early on, it would have made it difficult, almost impossible, to develop that new relationship had we declared war. It would have broken it off. In retrospect, I don't think so. In retrospect, I think we could have done it. And it may have been a mistake of judgment, but at the time, that...
...That in 1969 you could have gotten just about what you got in the end -- a kind of a decent interval, the North Viet Nam army's forces in place in the South, POWs -- and that therefore the price in American lives was way too high...