FrontPage magazine.com :: Fonda's Selective Silence by Jamie Glazov

One would think that Fonda’s interest in the phenomenon of silence would include a curiosity into her own personal failure to have spoken one word about the nightmare that she and other anti-war activists helped fertilize in Indochina after the North Vietnamese conquered South Vietnam in 1975. Indeed, the anti-war movement had facilitated the communist victory and paved the road for the bloodbath in Indochina that followed. David Horowitz, who helped organize the first campus demonstration against the war at the University of California, Berkeley in 1962, reflects on this phenomenon:

Every testimony by North Vietnamese generals in the postwar years has affirmed that they knew they could not defeat the United States on the battlefield, and that they counted on the division of our people at home to win the war for them. The Vietcong forces we were fighting in South Vietnam were destroyed in 1968. In other words, most of the war and most of the casualties in the war occurred because the dictatorship of North Vietnam counted on the fact Americans would give up the battle rather than pay the price necessary to win it. This is what happened. The blood of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, and tens of thousands of Americans, is on the hands of the anti-war activists who prolonged the struggle and gave victory to the Communists.