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...step in and run Somalia until there is once again a functioning government. There is a name for such an administration: trusteeship. There is authority for it under the U.N. charter as well as a mechanism within the bureaucracy called the Trusteeship Council. In Cambodia, the U.N. is already overseeing the government in Phnom Penh while it tries to disarm the warring factions and prepare the ground for elections next year...
World communism was a chimera even before Kennedy sent U.S. advisers to Vietnam. The Sino-Soviet split began in 1960; later, Mao Zedong refused to let the Soviets send arms to Hanoi by rail across China. In 1978 Vietnam attacked the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and the following year beat back an invasion by China. This was not the sequence of events that Dwight Eisenhower had in mind in 1954 when he propounded the domino theory, the rationale for U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia. Instead, the violent feuding among the region's Marxist regimes in the 1970s and 1980s...
Isaacson accused Kissinger of lying to U.S. Air Force commanders before bombing missions in Cambodia so that the American public would not learn of his plans and protest the ensuing violence...
Questions from the audience dealt with Kissinger's involvement in the Vietnam war, the bombing of Cambodia during the early 1970's and the Watergate break...
...facts appear straightforward. A Green Beret unit in Vietnam running Project Gamma, a top-secret intelligence operation that monitored the results of the secret U.S. bombing in Cambodia, discovers that Chuyen, its key agent, may be a North Vietnamese double. The agent represents a profound threat to what the Green Berets perceive as a sensitive covert White House operation. A low-level CIA official in the embassy gives a wink and a nod for termination with extreme prejudice. Colonel Robert Rheault, a Green Beret officer cut in the Ollie North mode, orders Chuyen's death...