Others who urge an immediate American withdrawal are at least frank enough to admit that such a withdrawal means accepting defeat. They even talk about trying to find havens for antiCommunist Vietnamese whose lives would be endangered by a Communist takeover. What they do not realize is that if it ever came to the calamity of a Communist victory in South Vietnam. the number of refugees would have to be measured not in the hundreds of thousands but in the millions. Still others try to deceive themselves and deceive the American people by pretending that an immediate withdrawal would not necessarily be interpreted as an American defeat. But let no one imagine that we can surrender "on the cheap" or that the Communists will oblige with some facesaving arrangement.
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