ABSTRACT
I have therefore told them (the Americans): you have asked us to do something that you failed to do with half a million powerful troops and skilled commanders and with nearly 300 billion dollars in expenditures over six long years. If I do not say that you were defeated by the communists in Vietnam, I must modestly say that you did not win either. But you found an honourable way out. And at present, when our army lacks weapons, ammunition, helicopters, aircraft and B-52s, you ask us to do an impossible thing like filling up the ocean with stones. . . .
