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...early May there was a long article in The New York Times about Cambodia, unusual because it told an amazing story of suffering inflicted on peasants there by Communists and because it contained some suprisingly personal observations by Sydney Schanberg, a reporter...
...indifference to language is also a result of Viet Nam and Watergate. An accumulation of lies inevitably corrupts the language in which the lies are told. After an American bombing raid in Cambodia, a U.S. Air Force colonel complained to reporters: You always write it's bombing, bombing, bombing It's not bombing! It's air support." The classic of the war, of course came from the American officer who explained: "It was necessary to destroy the village in order to save it." In Nixon's White House, concealing information became "containment" I was wrong...
...live in a state with 13% unemployment and adjacent to one with 16%. If he can't or won't do anything about things like that, it's hard to care if Ford has a nice family, likes the rubber-chicken circuit, or can beat up Cambodia. Just because he isn't as sinister as Nixon doesn't mean he's a good President. Quit churning out this cynical, sycophantic...
...couldn't be solely responsible for all the Faith that's missing. But it's a serious problem. Secretary of State Kissinger told the West Palm Beach Rotary Club last week that "our loss of Faith is no laughing matter." Kissinger said that he was unable to keep bombing Cambodia because we lost Faith. That clearly is no laughing matter. What good is a Secretary of State who can't bomb occasionally...
Maybe a little Faith got lost when we began dropping over 200,000 tons of bombs on rice farmers in North Vietnam back in 1965. I bet some Faith was missing after we obliterated Laos, destroyed Cambodia and then created and colonized South Vietnam, all in just three presidential elections. It was good for employment, but it must have been hard on Faith...