Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...especially unsuited to the world of the 1960s. The West is faced with the implacable challenge of Communism, which incessantly practices intervention of many kinds as an instrument of gradual world domination. To combat Communist interventions, the West must be ready and willing to intervene. Those who would commit the U.S. to nonintervention in the midst of the struggle against Communism might well ponder some lines that Philosopher John Stuart Mill, author of the famous tract On Liberty, wrote more than a hundred years ago: "The doctrine of nonintervention, to be a legitimate principle of morality, must be accepted...
...complete concert with none of these organizations is Israel's Ben-Gurion. Bred in Czarist Poland, Ben-Gurion cannot understand how any Jew can possibly be happy or productive living outside Israel. Thus believing that a true Zionist must necessarily commit himself to settling in Israel, Ben-Gurion has branded U.S. Zionists as hypocrites, and has fenced for years on the issue with Zionist President Goldmann. Speaking to the 25th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem last December, Ben-Gurion threw fresh fuel on the controversy by interjecting a Talmudic passage: "Whoever dwells outside the land of Israel is considered...
...like petrified entrails through German-occupied Warsaw. It is September 1944, the final days of the Uprising, and the ragged remnants of a guerrilla company-waging a fruitless small-arms fight against Nazi tanks-are ordered to retreat underground. There, in sewage, they panic, drown, go mad, get lost, commit suicide and make love...
Thailand and the Philippines, U.S. allies in the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, were ready and willing to send troops into Laos if the U.S. would also commit forces. But Britain and France threw their weight against intervention, and U.S. Army generals counseled that jungly, mountainous Laos, with few roads, only two usable airstrips and no coastline, was an awkward place for the U.S. to fight. Democratic leaders in Congress also opposed intervention. "I don't think the terrain and conditions are right for sending in our troops," said Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...However, we should not forget one lesson we learned from recent events. Whenever American prestige is to be committed on a major scale, we must be willing to commit enough power to obtain our objective even if all of our intelligence estimates prove wrong. Putting it bluntly, we should not start things unless we are prepared to finish them...