I had been a guerrilla leader in World War II. And I used to say that the way to fight the guerrilla was with guerrillas. And I disbelieved that you could by bombing, ah, have any effect on the supplies coming down through the Ho Chi Minh trails.
We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.
I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.
None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of 600,000 men between 1965 and 1968. . . Moreover, by about 1970 at least 80% of the day-to-day combat in South Vietnam was being carried on by regular NVA troops. . . Genuine black-pajama southern guerrillas had been decimated and amounted to no more than 20% of the communist fighting forces.
I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries.
I would never accept general impunity for the guerrillas!
