It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it.
-- [said by an unnamed American Major who had been directing
allied firepower against the provincial capital Ben Tre, Vietnam,
population 35,000 on February 8, 1968. Told to Peter Arnett of the
Associated Press. New York Times Book Review, November 27,
1977, p.34.
see also:
http://www.civilwartimes.com/Vietnam/articles/2000/02002_text.htm
and http://www.mediastudies.org/681a.htm
and http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/reference/timeline.html
and http://www.fred.net/hsmead/BOOM60~1.HTM