Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was the situation, at least, in Europe. In Asia we hoped to reach a similar implicit understanding with China: no big wars, and a firm division of territory. But in trying to stretch our model of the international system into Asia, Oglesby argues, we exposed some of its most inhuman possibilities. The principles which gave Western Europe a benevolent heaven of Marshall aid yielded in Asia a napalm-filled bell...
...however, no letup in congressional criticism. Chief among the sharpshooters was Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who floor-managed the landmark congressional resolution in 1964 by which the President has authority to take "all necessary steps" to resist aggression in Southeast Asia. Fulbright now confesses that he played "a part that I am not at all proud of at the time of the Gulf of Tonkin. That would have been a good time to have precipitated a debate and re-examination of our involvement...
...trouble with U.S. policy in Vietnam Carl Oglesby, president of SDS said last night, is that American policymakers have tried to apply a cold-war European formula to revolutionary Asia...
Oglesby said that American policy makers believe that Vietnam is the truce line between the United States and China and that eventually the Chinese "will join hands with American Bankers." But this will never happen, he continued, because Asia is revolutionary, while Europe was not. The Asian people are deeply committed to change because of "national aspiration combined with national resentment...
Oglesby said that the economic conditions of Asia had to be improved in order he suggested "craking the power" of international firms, and an equivalent wage scale. He said that the U.S. should refuse to give aid to tyrannical regimes...