This could go on forever. but I say a time has come to begin to cast ourselves loose from our manifold entanglements in Vietnam. I do not advocate abrupt withdrawal such as the French pullout In 1954. What I do advocate is a section by section. division by division shift of responsibility from American civilian and military advisers to their Vietnamese counterpartsand make It stick. At the provincial level the USAID refugee adviser. for example. should begin to shift responsibility to his Vietnamese counterpart. where It belongs anyway. In the field. Vietnamese Army units. when fully equipped with the M16 rifle and other modern equipment. should begin receiving combat assignments previously borne by the U.S.