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Its foolish to surrender to communist they will give you no quarter better dead then red.

Well, to be honest the UNITA commanders saw the writing on the wall. After witnessing Bush's failure to even mention, let alone criticize Dos Santos and his Communist MPLA regime for assasinating their leader, a faithful US ally of some 27 years, the remaining UNITA leaders were so demoralized that they gave up the fight. They actually have a greater chance of surviving by surrendering now unconditionally, then being ambushed and assasinated by the militarily superior Communist Angolan MPLA later on.

To be fair to Bush, he is not the only President to betray our faithful anti-Communist allies to the Reds. Truman was the first President to do so when he betrayed the Chiang Kai Shek's Nationalist anti-Communist freedom fighters to Mao's Red Army back in the 1940s. Ever since, it has become a disturbing and maddening trend in US policy.