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you could go on for hours about why we should have been there or we shouldn't have been there or all the rest of it but I think, subsequently, a lot of people died because we pulled out when we did. Possibly 5 million Cambodians to start with. The British stayed in Malaya for many years to combat communism, and they eventually did, and it just drifted away. And it would've taken us, at least, another 10 years to do the same in Vietnam.
But when you've got conscription, the way we had it, I mean, if you want to destroy nationalism that's how you do it. It's a dreadful way to do it. So, your marble comes out of a container and your number is on it and you get called up whether you like it or not. That's no way to do it. You should only have volunteers.
