We do not hear all the statistical criteria of success in the countryside. This is not really because the North Vietnamese have launched a new offensive. which they have. Rather. to quote a 1970 report of the Subcommittee on Refugees. it is because Saigon has not had "the capacity or will to really serve the people and sustain the peace." Our country cannot do for Saigon what it cannot do for itself. and we should have ceased pretending this fiction long ago. by ending the war. Mr. President. we really do not comprehend the Implications of the human costs of the Indochina war on the social fabric and traditions of the small countries directly involved.
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