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...Melvin Laird and Secretary of State William Rogers by denigrating them behind their backs and excluding them from major policy matters. "Cutting out Mel Laird is what we did for a living," says former Kissinger Staffer Laurence Lynn. Hersh says that Laird was bypassed in the decision to bomb Cambodia...
...review after another has nibbled away at the factual underpinning of this book--the military historians have challenged Podhoretz's casualty figures, the Kissinger specialists have picked apart his analyses of Cambodia. This reviewer know's relatively little about those matters, but a good deal about the history of the domestic antiwar movement. If Podhoretz's treatment of that great and powerful outburst is typical of the way he deals with the facts, then much of this book is a twisted, lying account. Though he allows at one point that the "radicals who openly supported the Communists were...
...they were and are dead wrong. The nightmarish "peace" that now exists in Indochina cannot be separated from the war and viewed in isolation as merely a product of communist evil. Vietnam, Cambodia and their neighbors are the legacies of conflict largely propagated by the United States. War, not a particular ideology, traumatized those societies and stripped their politics of all humanity--war the United States encouraged and then escalated...
...formally asked the United Nations to investigate its yellow-rain charges; last November the U.N. sent an eight-member team to interview refugees in Thailand. The team was denied visas to Laos and Viet Nam and for complex diplomatic reasons did not try to make on-site inspections in Cambodia. Not surprisingly, the hamstrung investigation found no evidence to "prove or disprove the allegations." Even so, the U.N. team reported that refugee accounts "could suggest a possible use of some sort of chemical-warfare agents" and recommended that the inquiry continue. The team visited Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan...
...wearing chinos and swizzling gin and tonics, it's now "in" among the jet-setters to chuckle and call yourself "conservative It's sort of exclusive sounding, and most public school kids aren't doing it. And with Reagan's benign cowboy humor helping people to forget Nixon and Cambodia and Watergate, the label "Republican" no longer provokes so many raised eyebrows at dorm parties. It's pretty much as Higgins says: a lot of people coming out of the closet and mindlessly calling themselves something their parents have wanted to be for a long time...