In analyzing our position in Southeast Asia today. it is advisable to go back a few years and consider what has brought us to the unenviable and seemingly fathomless predicament we find ourselves in. Some say we had no business going into South Vietnam in the first place. With this thesis. I disagree. After the fall of Dien Bien Phu. the departure of the French from Indochina and the Geneva Conference. the United States was instrumental in helping to move nearly 1 million refugees from North Vietnam to the south. Because we shared responsibility for their coming there. I have always felt that while we may have had no legal commitment to them. we certainly did have a moral obligation to help them get established.
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