Keith
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| troll wrote: | Odd that such an explosive book and explosive quote has only one reference on the Internet, just a BBS quote like this one.
Try it. Google the title as Greenhat quoted it:
"Memoirs of Vo Nguyen Giap"
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Here's some info from the ultra-right wing UPI:
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040406-032203-3282r
| Quote: | With the Vietcong wiped out in the Tet offensive, North Vietnamese regulars moved south down the Ho Chi Minh trails through Laos and Cambodia to continue the war. Even Giap admitted in his memoirs that news media reporting of the war and the anti-war demonstrations that ensued in America surprised him. Instead of negotiating what he called a conditional surrender, Giap said they would now go the limit because America's resolve was weakening and the possibility of complete victory was within Hanoi's grasp.
Bui Tin, who served on the general staff of the North Vietnamese army, received South Vietnam's unconditional surrender on April 30, 1975. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal after his retirement, he made clear the anti-war movement in the United States, which led to the collapse of political will in Washington, was "essential to our strategy."
Visits to Hanoi by Jane Fonda and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and various church ministers "gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses."
America lost the war, concluded Bui Tin, "because of its democracy. Through dissent and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will to win."
By Arnaud de Borchgrave
UPI Editor at Large
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