Early in nineteen seventy-one, the Nixon administration decided to provide air and artillery support for a South Vietnamese invasion of Laos.

早在1971年，尼克松政府决定为南越入侵老挝提供空中和炮兵支援。

He said he acted to speed the peace talks. He also ordered American commanders to give the South Vietnamese most of the responsibility for fighting.

他说，他采取行动是为了加快和谈，还命令美国指挥官让南越承担大部分的战斗责任。

His act of what is called “self-immolation” was in protest against how Buddhists were treated by the South Vietnamese government.

他所谓的“自焚”行为是为了抗议南越政府对待佛教徒的方式。

Even while half-heartedly encouraging a coup that toppled and killed Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnamese leader, Kennedy seemed determined to draw down the American presence and avoid a future quagmire there.

尽管他并无决心支持发动一场政变，颠覆南越政权并杀死领导人吴廷琰，但是肯尼迪似乎意在减少美国在越南投入的兵力，避免未来泥足深陷。

By 1965, Sihanouk broke his relationship with  the United States. He allowed the North and South Vietnamese forces fighting the United  States to set up bases on Cambodian soil.

到 1965 年， 西哈努克与美国断绝关系。他允许与美国作战的北越和南越军队在柬埔寨领土上建立基地。