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...wars: one of bombs and bullets, the other of plows and pamphlets. In both wars, the U.S. effort has been set back by months, and perhaps years, as a result of the Communists' recent attacks against the cities of the South. With the countryside wide open to Viet Cong soldiers, recruiters and tax collectors, the crucial rural-pacification effort is at a standstill. "We have had a hell of a setback," admitted a high-ranking U.S. official in Viet Nam. "To even mention 'the other war' at this time is just a lot of nonsense...
...three years the Americans have bombed the North, with total disregard for the political implications," a South Vietnamese general said last month. "The next step was shelling government-controlled villages to rout the Cong. The logical extension of this policy is to use nuclear weapons. What else can you do when the 2000-pound bombs don't stop the Communists...
JOHNSON'S tactic seems based on Ronald Reagan's suggestion of "letting the Cong go to bed every night afraid we're going to hit them with the big one in the morning." As an extension of a bomb-them-to-the-conference-table policy, it offers little encouragement to those hoping for unilateral U.S. concessions...
...could be driven out by a Viet Cong victory, and I'm not sure that America would ever face that without going to all-out nuclear war. The only other thing you can hope for is that somehow the present American government is brought down, and that a government be brought into power which will arrange for America's withdrawal...
...large contingent of Ionian Greeks in the Persian army? Did they cover up their treachery by fighting for Darius against the Athenians, or did they change sides? There is no information, but one may wager that they contributed to the Persian defeat. How will history deal with the Viet Cong, the north and south Vietnamese and the Americans? Richard N.Frye Aga Khan Profesor of Iranian