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You are correct. The Viets were using both Laos and Cambodia as staging and transport areas. So Militarily, it made sence to bomb those areas. Just remeber it is easy to monday night quarter back after 50 years. But back then, nothing was for sure. This was a time of PRECIEVED world wide struggle against communisim. Nixon had inhereted a…
You are correct. The Viets were using both Laos and Cambodia as staging and transport areas. So Militarily, it made sence to bomb those areas. Just remeber it is easy to monday night quarter back after 50 years. But back then, nothing was for sure. This was a time of PRECIEVED world wide struggle against communisim. Nixon had inhereted a war and wanted to end it. One way to assist with that was putting pressue on the Viets militarily . It made sence. And it did assist during the Paris peace talks. Would haveit been better if Humphrey or McGovern had gotten in instead of Nixon? ...Doubt it. Nixon played a good hand with what he was delt with and ther man might not have done so well.
you're lucky this wasn't a spelling test.