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The U.S. Congress, controlled by [[Democrat]]s eager to get back at President [[Richard Nixon]], cut off funding to South Vietnam in August 1974<ref>http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/congress-cuts-military-aid-to-south-vietnam</ref> causing us to lose the war which, according to many South Vietnamese military officers, we were close to winning. The South Vietnamese army ran out of [[ammunition]] and fuel soon afterward. The North Vietnamese marched into Saigon in April 1975. The Vietcong was dissolved in 1977.
The U.S. Congress, controlled by [[Democrat]]s eager to get back at President [[Richard Nixon]], cut off funding to South Vietnam in August 1974<ref>http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/congress-cuts-military-aid-to-south-vietnam</ref> causing us to lose the war which, according to many South Vietnamese military officers, we were close to winning. The South Vietnamese army ran out of [[ammunition]] and fuel soon afterward. The North Vietnamese marched into Saigon in April 1975. The Vietcong was dissolved in 1977.
==PLO's Ahmed Shukeiri==
==PLO's Ahmad Shukeiri==
[[Palestinian]] [[Ahmad Shukeiri]], before the '67 [[Six-Day war]], had declared his support for the Viet Cong.
[[Palestinian]] [[Ahmad Shukeiri]], before the '67 [[Six-Day war]], had declared his support for the Viet Cong.
''... To have permitted him to function, while he was threatening the United States with an alliance with the Vietcong, was viewed by many as a grave danger.
''... To have permitted him to function, while he was threatening the United States with an alliance with the Vietcong, was viewed by many as a grave danger.
Now Shukeiri and his PLO have come home to roost—and they could well instigate the Arab peoples who are unaware of the existing dangers to involve Israel and the entire free world in a third world conflict.''</ref>
Now Shukeiri and his PLO have come home to roost—and they could well instigate the Arab peoples who are unaware of the existing dangers to involve Israel and the entire free world in a third world conflict.''</ref>
==See also==
==See also==
* [[Tet Offensive]]
* [[Tet Offensive]]