Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Only effete snobs and impudent fools (or is it the other way around?) will blame clean-living American dropouts for the shooting of four-year-old children in My Lai. It needs little reflection to realize that they would have been full-grown and battle-hardened Viet Cong by the time Nixon's secret plan to end the Viet Nam war can be expected to succeed...
...average man will commit atrocities whether he be American, Asian, German, British, Israeli or Arab. War-not the morality of an individual man-should be the subject of all this misplaced soul-searching...
...allow the issue an undeserved partiality. The village supposedly was a haven for Viet Cong. The people were probably sympathizers with the V.C., and perhaps their direct aid contributed to American combat deaths...
...Your story states: "So far, the tale of My Lai has only been told by a few Vietnamese survivors-all of them pro-V.C. . . ." It is a shame that all the pro-American My Lai survivors have not been heard from...
...decade is ending, and there can be little argument that the 1960s was a time of turmoil, of bitter protest and brutal violence, of confusion and finally, of near despair over the American destiny. This week, in a special section, TIME takes a long look back at those troubled years and finds a fascinating parallel in 19th century Europe, when men also called for a total revolution in human behavior...