Well, not quite old chum...

I take a few exceptions with you on one particular point regarding the "...VC wanted to move to the South of Vietnam...". Let me clue you in to one of the nastier little stunts the USA pulled after the signing of the Geneva Agreement in 1954.

A group of men under the command of General Edward R. Lansdale known as the "Saigon Military Mission" (Lansdale being a fellow well-versed in counter-insurgency and psychological warfare) that included Major Lucien Conien (ex-OSS and then current agent runner of the CIA, Lieutenant (USN) Daniel Ellsberg (yep, the same guy believe it or not) and others, all under the guidance and control of the Central Intelligence Agency under Allen W. Dulles set out; and quite successfully succeeded, to destabilize the Southern portion of Vietnam with the introduction of close to, if not in fact, well over one million people from Northern Vietnam (Tonkinese people) into an area of people, South Vietnam, and particularily the rice growing regions, that were neither financially beneficial nor culturally amenable to accept such a large influx of people at one time or even under the best of circumstances for either party involved by one of the best rumor and psychological warfare campaigns on record.

And you know how the vast majority of people made it there? Curtesy of the United States Navy, that's how.

This is the long and short of it. It's now declassified, look into it and see for yourself. You're off on several details in your analysis and I'm hoping if you find and recognize this one that you'll be moved to step back into what may well be some enlightened research.

This feat reamins to this day the largest peacetime evacuations of folks ever recorded...you'd have to go back to the evacuation of Dunkirk in WWII to find a larger one. This is FACT...look it up.

Just consider the consequences of say; using the same distance, planting one million people from the five bouroughs of NYC to Biloxi, Mississippi under less than favorable conditions and tell me what you'd think you'd have on your hands? Refer to Thomas Malthus and the Malthusian Syndrome/Problem to get a better fix on that kind of situation in financial, social and practical terms. Do some more homework amigo. Ease up a taste on the emotionalism. Oh, was I there? Yep. Two tours. Seeya. God Bless.