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To: re3 who wrote (157148)	5/11/2003 3:25:41 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 164684

Without the context, it is hard to determine just what that quoted advice really meant, but the US had long since given up on preventing the north from being communist. The point was to keep it from spreading to the south. Furthermore, Korea was still fresh in everyone's mind, leading them to think that if the north faced a stalemate, they would agree to a negotiate settlement that would make the two-state division of Vietnam permanent, preserving the non-communist south. The Korean experience of initially seeking and almost realizing a "total defeat" of the communist north, only to end up with a stalemate after China entered to prevent a US/UN victory, also influenced US policy. As I said initially, we never sought in Vietnam to defeat the north. Rather, we fought a defensive war hoping for a negotiated solution. Bob