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In the opinion of Gen. William C. Westmoreland, former
U.S. commander in Vietnam and now Army chief of staff,
the war would “probably” be over now if the United States
had continued its bombing of North Vietnam.
The general voiced this view before the House defense
appropriations subcommittee last Oct. 8 in testimony just
made public. He added that he did not favor a resumption
of the bombing, which was ordered halted by President
Johnson 13 months ago, but supported President Nixon’s
policy of “Vietnamization” of the war—gradually turning
the burden of the fighting over to the South Vietnamese.
We will never know if the general is right about the
bombing, and the worst thing Americans could do would be
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Lessons of Viet War
By DON OAKLEY
to fret over the fact that we will never know.
One thing we do know, and that is that in the nearly three
years between early 1965 and late 1968, the United States
dropped more bombs on North and South Vietnam than
were dropped during four years of World War II in all
theaters. This alone raises doubts about what would have
been accomplished by another year of bombing of North
Vietnam.
The essential point, however, has nothing to do with the
difference in bomb tonnages between World War II and the
Vietnam war. It is the difference between the wars them
selves. And in this regard, perhaps the best counter to the
general’s expert military opinion is a statement made by
one Nguyen Bat, a former security guard at My Lai 4 and
a witness to the claimed massacre of the hamlet’s inhabi
tants by American soldiers:
“After the shooting, all the villagers became Commu
nists.” All the surviving villagers, that is.
In World War 11, the United States and its allies waged
a total military effort to smash the powerful war machines
of Germany and Japan and to roll back their invading
armies in Asia and Europe. There was no problem of dis
tinguishing between friend and enemy and no need to “win
the hearts and minds” of the French or Italians or Filipinos
or any other conquered people.
In South Vietnam, while American military power
achieved its limited purpose of preventing a take-over by
the native Viet Cong, aided by the North Vietnamese, some
thing more than armed strength alone will be required
before peace with freedom reigns in that tragic land.
That something else has to come from the government
and people of South Vietnam themselves, with or without
the presence of an American military shield.
America faces serious danger if in coming years it tears
itself apart over the might-have-beens and searches for
reasons why the war in Vietnam did not end in clear-cut
victory like World War II and other wars in the history
books.
There will be those who will claim, and perhaps bid for
political power on the strength of it, that:
“One more year of bombing would have done the trick.”
Or, “If there had been fewer long-haired youths on the
campuses and 100,000 more Gls in Vietnam the enemy
would have been beaten.” Or, “If the news media had
supported the President the North Vietnamese would have
been forced to negotiate.” Or, “Communists in high places
betrayed us.” Or, “We should have blockaded Haiphong.”
Or simply, “If we had tried harder we would have won.”
But America did try, and it achieved the only goal it
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could realistically have achieved—stopping the incipient
armed take-over by Communists in late 1964. Whether or
not the objective was worth the cost, it was no little accom
plishment.
But military power has its limits in the kind of situation
that obtains in a backward country like Vietnam, and in
too many cases:
“After the shooting, all the villagers became Commu
nists.”
That is why Vietnam turned into the morass that it did
and that is why, whenever and however we find its end’
we must draw lessons from it, not recriminations.
California’s Motto
California is the only state
to have a Greek motto.
Eureka is an exclamation of
triumph meaning “I have
found (it),” which reference
is to the discovery of gold.
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Wednesday, Dec. 10,1969
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