And if, for example, out of this present struggle... after making this great commitment... after turning around the psychology in Asia... we then agree to a coalition government with the communists... or we force the South Vietnamese into a neutralized position... and neutralize as we did Laos... or if we make... any kind of territorial concessions to the Vietcong... either one of these three courses of action... would be interpreted as a retreat... and also a defeat, not only for South Vietnam but for the United States.