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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Student's Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 10 May 28 1968

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The only other people who stand to be sold out at Paris arc those countries which have parroted the American position for all these years and have shown the flag at America's behest and in accordance with what they have considered their essential interests.

A "sell-out" to Australia and New Zealand, means a precipitous withdrawal that will hurt the respective governments domestically by making them look bigger fools than they had planned.

Of course, these governments don't feel particularly motivated to remain there after the Americans leave.

It is fairly laughable to imagine our ANZAC battalion bravely battling on alone against the Communist Threat.

I think that after the Americans have finally blown the whistle and departed for good (probably under a scheme which will tacitly admit the inevitability of Vietnamese reunification), we are going to see an interesting example of about-face rationalisation.

The commonsensical obligation to campfollow your protecting great power will replace the pretty unconvincing and "principled" rationale for intervention and it will be refreshing to return to a reality of some sorts, anyway.