when lazwan died, people who came after him said communism didn't work. it didn't work in china, they changed it in 1980 and the new leadership said we're going to take the capitalist way. it's the death of lazwan. >> just want to get back to strategy and tactics. the french were able to hold the entire indo chinese peninsula with about 200,000 troops, and we had half a million troops, and westmoreland wanted 200,000 more if i'm not mistaken, which brought upon the resignation of the president. didn't we learn anything from the french? >> we did. i might suggest that the phrase that the french held indochina with that many troops might perhaps -- might not be accurate. the french will hold certain areas, and those areas are urban areas but the problem is i don't think they did hold the country, that they held only very small portions of the country and that will become a problem for them as they're trying to execute their own strategy fighting the french indochina war. what i find fascinating here, and certainly the americans will look back on the french