[lit-ideas] Re: some Hitchens to raise ire
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:35:35 -0400
Eric: That's one of the basic rules of war. When one's opponents
retreat, you advance and attack.
Andy: It didn't apply when we pulled out of Vietnam.
Eric: Huh?! What history did you read?
It wasn't until the cease-fire of January 1973, when American troops
were withdrawn, that the North Vietnamese drove their Soviet- and
Chinese-supplied tanks south and started massacring the people who
had trusted us.
The 1973 cease-fire was supposed to end the war. It didn't. The
American opponents had withdrawn, so the North Vietnamese advanced
and attacked.
The North Vietnamese rolled into Saigon on April 30, 1975. Though
they met little resistance, it was the beginning of a massive
re-education campaign resulting in many South Vietnamese deaths.
One of the basic rules of war, as I said.
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