In South Vietnam today. as in China In 1944. thousands of phantom soldiersmen who have deserted or who have died in battlecontinue to pad the army rolls. Their commanders carry their names on active duty rosters. then pocket their salaries and sell their supplies. The military arm of the Saigon regime is rotten from top to bottom. We are repeating in Vietnam the same mistakes we made in China in 1944 by unwisely backing a corrupt military corps. Worse yet. the economic and social fabric of South Vietnam has been torn apart over the past few years. Millions of peaceful peasants have been turned into homeless refugees. Inflation is rampant. The cities have been turned into steaming cesspools of urban rot.
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