El Salvador: keep your eye on the ball. (guerrilla offensive compared to Tet offensive in Vietnam)

From: National Review | Date: December 22, 1989 | Copyright information

KARL MARX was only half right. History Can occur first as farce, and then again as farce. What we are now witnessing in El Salvador is an attempt to replay the Vietnam farce.

In Vietnam, the Vietcong had no chance of winning on the ground. They could murder some mayors and schoolteachers but they could not seize and hold anything important. But their handlers had a good idea: if they couldn't win the war in Saigon, they would win it in the United States. We now know that many, if not all, of the Buddhist monks who immolated themselves in flames were drugged and ...

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