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RE: COUNTERORIENTATION WhEK QT And the way One of them put it, it’s taking the strategy, well it was replacing the strategy that's just. been defeated with one that was defeated before that, and that’s what Nixon's up to at this point. And all of Nixon's talk about tre «- ithdrawals and all the different proposals he comes cut with, they see as not directed at them at all, that the main objects of all Nixon's 4 pronouncements is mainly the U. S. pvblic. Because they recognize them as akrurdities, and have no real relation to the actual objective situation in Vietnan. It is mainly for domestic consumption designed to buy Nixon some time to try and continue the bombing of Sovth Vietnam to hcpe to win back at the negotiating table what the U. S&S. has lost on the hattlefield. hal ih ie hai ie Bi Es oes Gee a They see this as something that's completely unacceptable and hold firmly to the pesiticn that the U. S. must have the total and unconditional withdrawal of all WN. S. troeps and dismantling of all military bases in Vietiam as the only just basis for soluticn to the war. In the pust Vietnamese had always been very thankful for thesuppmt that they've received from people all over the world, particularly from the American anti-war movement in protesting U. S. aggression in Vietnam. They see thi mainly as a result of the fact that their struggle was a just struggle and it deserves the support of almost all of humanity. However, in the past, I don't think judging from other times that I've talked with Vietnamese, that they didn't see it as so important as, the U. S. anti-war movement that is, as quite as important as it could be at this point. JI think that is the result of the fact that now the reason why the U. S. anti-war movement becomes important at this point is because of the fact of the NLF rising to the conclusion that they have won victory on the other two fronts, that what has to be done at this point is to convince NIXON that he has to withdraw. Their ;*sition is that NIXON has not yet made the decision to leave Vietnam and that even though they've done everything that they can to convince him in South Vietnam in terms of defeating him and in costs that‘s being bern by GI's that he's in a completely irrational kind of position. And this has to be made clear to the American people. 118