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But, "you will kill ten of ours and we will kill one of yours,"
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and eventually what happens in the Vietnam case is that--
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as in Algerian the case-- is that the pressure to pull out of
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the war becomes so enormous that that strategy wins,
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and that the costs of continuing to fight, to battle,
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to repress, depending on your view of the matter,
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will affect the home front, and the home front will demand the
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end of the fighting and indeed of the empire.
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Early in 1954 the French Army suffered a major defeat at the hands
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of the Vietnamese at a place called
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Dien Bien Phu-- p-h-u at end--
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which is now a tourist site,