{"id":25171,"date":"2018-02-12T11:08:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T16:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=25171"},"modified":"2018-02-12T11:10:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T16:10:31","slug":"pentagon-papers-only-the-viet-cong-had-any-real-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/02\/12\/pentagon-papers-only-the-viet-cong-had-any-real-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Papers:  Only the Viet Cong had any real support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across the following in the Pentagon Papers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Buddhists, while a cohesive and effective minority protest movement, lacked a program or the means to achieve power. The labor unions were entirely urban-based and appealed to only a small segment of the population. The clandestine political parties were small, urban, and usually elitist. The religious sects had a narrow appeal and were based on ethnic minorities. Only the Viet Cong had any real support and influence on a broad base in the countryside.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If our country claims to be for democracy in other countries, why is it that we pick as our enemy the only group that had &#8220;any real support and influence on a broad base in the countryside&#8221;?  In the case of Vietnam at the time, the majority of the people were in the countryside, and not in the cities.<\/p>\n<p>One would think that the excerpt above might be immune from being called propaganda since it seems to be against the very side who is stating this as a fact.  To quote a newly coined phrase, &#8220;And yet we persisted.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across the following in the Pentagon Papers: The Buddhists, while a cohesive and effective minority protest movement, lacked a program or the means to achieve power. The labor unions were entirely urban-based and appealed to only a small segment of the population. The clandestine political parties were small, urban, and usually elitist. The religious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25173,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25171\/revisions\/25173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}