Neither the United States nor the Saigon leaders are waging this battle with adequate resources. The United States. plans to spend $12 billion on the military effort in Vietnam during the current fiscal year. U.S. aid earmarked for the 700.000 Vietnam refugees is a shockingly low figure of $21 million. of which only $5.2 million is designated for food commodities. The record of the Saigbn governments aid for refugees is equally dismal. its projection for this year is $14 million. Unless an allout effort is made by both ourselves and the South Vietnamese or these social and economic fronts. the whole military effort could have been in vain. The third lesson concerns the inevitability of antiAmericanism in such situations.
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