The Johnson administration and its allies saw the Vietcong as instruments of Chinese expansionism in Southeast Asia, which had to be stopped before all the Asian dominoes fell to communism.

• 约翰逊政府及其支持者把越共视为中国在东南亚扩张的工具，因此要在亚洲各国像多米诺骨牌那样一个接一下投向共产主义怀抱之前加以阻止。