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...military commitment on the ground to holding several "enclaves on the coast." This strategy struck Pentagon officials as militarily unsound, because it would allow the Communists to build their forces virtually unhampered, and as politically naive, because the U.S. presence in South Viet Nam would thus resemble a colonialist role...
Shoes & Paychecks. Like most African nations that inherited their boundaries from their former colonialist masters, Nigeria is not really one country at all. It has 250 tribes speaking 250 languages. Its vast Northern Region, in which live more than half its 55 million people, is predominantly Moslem; its three southern regions are Christian or pagan. Because of its size, the north has been able to dominate national politics from the start, a fact that the more advanced south actively resents...
Finishing Him Off. Without raising his voice, Kosygin attacked NATO, ("Why are you arming West Germany and setting her against us?"); colonialist imperialism ("In countries which have not yet freed themselves from the imperialist yoke there is colonial slavery, worse perhaps than under the Roman Empire"); and the notion of a Johnson-Kosygin meeting ("Not feasible" until after the war in Viet Nam is resolved). On Viet Nam itself, Kosygin was amazingly ill-informed ("You have more than 100,000 troops there, and you are sending another...
...state of mind. Cyprus, which professes nonalignment, is called Afro-Asian, while Malta, another former British colony in the Mediterranean, is not. Australia is disqualified because it is loyal to the West; South Africa belongs geographically but not politically. Red China is not nonaligned, but is accepted as "anti-colonialist." In short, any nation can be Afro-Asian if most other Afro-Asian nations want it in the club...
...Bulwark Against Designs. But far more important than the protection of American nationals was worry that European countries might come over the Atlantic again to intervene in pursuit of old colonialist designs. This fear, in turn, gave rise to the U.S.'s enduring defensive bulwark against foreign encroachment in the Western Hemisphere: the Monroe Doctrine...