Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christian Realism. Ironically, the journal that once condemned Hitler now criticizes the U.S. in its confrontation with Asian Communism. Niebuhr and Bennett say that a nation at times has a "moral obligation" to check power with power, but they advocate a negotiated end to the fighting in Viet Nam, a position that some critics feel is surprisingly akin to the antiwar view the magazine opposed in 1941. "We hope we are still Christian realists," Bennett writes in the anniversary issue, "and that we are as 'realistic' in emphasizing the limited relevance of American military power today...
...Whites and capitalists cannot make a social revolution on Asian land, While their B-52's are striking," Lacouture asserted. He admitted that the U.S. could provide hospitals, schools, and food, but feared that social revolution is impossible...
...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 as it was for Europe 20 years ago-perhaps more so, given the special virulence of the Asian strain of Communism...
Viet Nam lacks political and economic adhesiveness. Its 2,600 villages mean 2,600 separate economies. It is poor even by Asian standards. Annual per capita income is only $92 v. $ 3 00 in nearby Malaysia. Though plagued by almost every type of tropical disease, Viet Nam has only 69 hospitals and only one doctor for every 28,-000 people (v. one to every 645 in the U.S.). It has only 684 miles of railway, and much of that is now unusable. Piled on top of Viet Nam's other miseries are 442,000 refugees from Viet Cong-dominated...
...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, in which we try to recreate the post-war European encounters in Asia in order to reach a similar Cold War peace...