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Bloodbathing

The Army, one notes, is a bigger
outfit then all the hamburger dives
combined, yet is content to spare
the vast majority of South Vietnam's
population, for which kindness
survivors frequently shoot us
in the back; a palpable outrage
when one considers that the total
life's blood of 35,000 Vietnamese
(at two gallons each) wouldn't even
fill our boy's Olympic swimming
pool at Long Binh Army Post.

To the South Vietnamese, who
number only 18,000,000 in the
first place, (with 3,500,000 of those
refugees, 1,000,000 more in the
armed forces and yet another million
missing or dead since the war
began) America's terrifying use of
firepower is cause for considerable
bitterness. This is reflected in a
recent public opinion poll regarding
America where two-thirds of the
people we are defending asked us to
leave, and most of the rest declined
to give an opinion.

It remains the lot of the Vietnamese,
as it has for three thousand
or more proud years, to endure.
America cannot be expelled. America
can kill forever while her President
prattles nonsense ("we'll
withdrawal after you guys admit
we've won") and her people watch
the World Series.