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Show Looking L J Ahead FWj Dr. George S. Benson NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Searcy, Arkansas . COST OF APPEASEMENT The United States is spending spend-ing $30 to $35 billion a year, losing much of its unreplenish-able unreplenish-able natural resources and the precious lives of tens of thousands thou-sands of its young men in a war in South Vietnam that has become now a totally "no win" war with the probability of a historic U. S. defeat. Three U. S. Presidents who have been involved in the commitment commit-ment of American soldiers to this "defensive" war decreed there would be no U. S. military mili-tary victory. And now the U. S. is forsaking its primary objective of denying the Communist Com-munist a political victory. Despite the clearly stated South Vietnam constitutional provision preventing Communists Commu-nists from serving in the Government (a provision approved ap-proved by the U. S.), President Nixon, in a desperate effort to end the catastrophic and still-bleeding still-bleeding injury to our nation, has agreed to a political election elec-tion in which Communists may win offices in the South Vietnamese Viet-namese government. Should Ho Chi Minh accept this agreement; agree-ment; and should the war end; and then, if the skillful Communist Com-munist political forces should manipulate the election to win a beachhead in the., Govern , ment, they will have achieved the first stage of their basic objective which brought on their invasion of South Vietnam. Viet-nam. Full victory would be a matter of time. The Limited War In the United States' relationship rela-tionship to the Vietnam war, there are two transcendent historic facts that seem destined de-stined to shape the future of the U.S.A. and the course of human history: 1. The United States threw its military manpower and resources re-sources into a "limited" war which its leaders decreed must be fought militarily with offensive offen-sive and defensive half-measures, sacrificing thousands of American lives to prevent a Communist political takeover; and in the end, appear about ready to, collaborate in setting up the machinery with which the Reds could achieve political politi-cal takeover! 2. An enemy dealing massive punishment to the United States on the battle fields, but unable to win militarily, established estab-lished a "second front" in the United States, attracting to its vital goals ("Stop-the-Bombing" . . . "Bring-the-GIs-Home" . . . "Negotiate" . . . "Coalition Government") some of the most prominent people in American life, and creating the atmosphere for ultimate victory in Vietnam for World Communism. Red Advance Here are the landmarks of |