We develop great sympathy and great compassion when we see them on television and the pictures on the front pages of the newspapers. The tragedy is that we in Congress. and even the South Vietnamese Government. have failed to respond to these needs in a meaningful way. I grew tired of listeningand this goes back through the mid1960sto administration officials who would say. "As this problem involves the South Vietnamese. we have to let the South Vietnamese run these programs. we have to let South Vietnam develop a civilian war casualty program. or to look out after orphans. or to look out after refugees. we have to let them do it." But when the time came to be making a military decision. we were all ready to take that responsibility into our own hands. I think that has been true from the beginning and it continues through today. Why is it that the Air Force. for example. refuses to develop a set of rulesa manual of air warfare?
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