Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hurly-burly atmosphere of Honolulu may not have seemed the most appropriate setting for a clearheaded, thoroughgoing analysis of U.S. policy in Asia. Yet, for all the haste and hoopla with which it was mounted, last week's conference between the leaders of the U.S. and South Viet Nam did in fact put the nation's goals-and the war itself-in clearer perspective...
Kennan's ideas have changed a bit since then. "I find myself a sort of neo-isolationist," he confessed. "I think we would do better if we would show ourselves a little more relaxed and less terrified of what happens in the smaller countries of Asia and Africa, and not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse every time these things occur." While he did not advocate that the U.S. "turn tail and flee from the scene," he agreed with an earlier witness, retired Lieut. General James Gavin, that it should hole up in selected enclaves...
...committee pointed up a curious fact. Many liberal interventionists who were so ready to fight for Europe before World War II have become virtual isolationists today. Their rallying cry is that th.e U.S., though many times more powerful now than it was then, should never commit its manpower in Asia, and has no sound reason to do so. American troops have thus far proved that the U.S. can fight and fight well in Asia. As for the reasons for doing so, the President says in effect that Kennan's containment policy is as valid for Asia today...
...generally regarded as the architect of America's postwar policy of containment against Communist aggression in Europe. George F. Kennan, who retired from the State Department in 1963 to return to his professorship at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, believes that resisting Communist aggression in Southeast Asia is "not our business." Excerpts...
...when confronting revolutionary Asia, the humane American vision slips over into terror, and the Cold War mind -- "suspicious, dramatic, and above all, rational," reaches its most dangerous conclusions. To justify the defense of our wealth, and to satisfy our psyches, we see every social upheaval as a conspiracy: the National Liberation Front is controlled by Hanoi, and Hanoi by Peking. Oglesby suggests, more than half seriously, that we are fighting to show China that it must control Hanoi and the NLF, in order to create a rational Asian Communist coalition. We are practicing, Oglesby says, a politics of nostalgia...