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...Nixon's private talk to Chicago editors, the air of urgency in Washington, the alerting of troops, all had their intended effect. No one could be sure that a rescue attempt would not be used as pretext for intervention. The President's unexpected dispatch of U.S. troops into Cambodia last spring made his actions now unpredictable...
...disapprove of the extent of (the military) commitment, including its belated expansion in the spring of 1970 to Cambodia; but I believe that Vietnam did initially concern us politically, and still does, and that our justified political concern warranted an advisory and even a limited military involvement, though one that should have been confined to low-level counter-insurgency action with some air support, and to economic...
...manner and method in which American foreign policy is conducted.... The misbegotten Vietnam adventure, the result mainly of abysmal political miscalculation, has clearly demonstrated the need to define the confused and often contradictory roles played by numerous American agencies in formulating and executing foreign policy.... Whatever happens in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, and whatever course we chart in Asia in the years ahead, it remains axiomatic that we are going to have to deal with similar situations in the future, not only in Asia but elsewhere...
...Like Lon Nol, who perceives no alternative to continued conflict for Cambodia, Prince Sihanouk predicts a long and tragic struggle. In the October issue of the U.S. quarterly Foreign Affairs, Sihanouk, writing from his new home in Peking, said that he supported the Communist revolution, even though he realized that a prince could have no place...
...best solution for Laos and Cambodia, Sihanouk argued, might be neutralization. "The more the United States steps up its armed interventions or those of its allies in these two countries, the less chance there will be of their being 'neutral' or 'neutralized' in the future. And the more the United States and its allies support the regime of Lon Nol and prevent the National United Front of Cambodia from unseating it, the more they will push this front, and in consequence the Khmer people and the Cambodia of tomorrow, into the Asian socialist camp...