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To: neolib who wrote (201344)	9/5/2006 3:37:21 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Leaders the world over often must present a different spin to their political base. Here's a good one... Henry A. Kissinger quietly acknowledged to China in 1972 that Washington could accept a communist takeover of South Vietnam if that evolved after a withdrawal of U.S. troops -- even as the war to drive back the communists dragged on with mounting deaths. President Richard M. Nixon's envoy told Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai: "If we can live with a communist government in China, we ought to be able to accept it in Indochina."... Kissinger told Zhou that the United States respected its Hanoi enemy as a "permanent factor" and probably the "strongest entity" in the region. "And we have had no interest in destroying it or even defeating it," he insisted... washingtonpost.com It might have been nice if Nixon told the American people that back in 1970-1971. But I suppose it would have been bad for troop morale. Better to have them die thinking it was for a noble cause than have them discouraged. jttmab

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