Word: communisme
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...broad cultural frame, Vietnam became the quintessential proving ground of these myths. America's will, its ability to meet its destiny as the world's savior Vietnam was five thousand miles away from San Francisco, but we had to be as willing and able to fight Evil (a.k.a. "Communism") in that remote land as we were in Europe. Vietnam was also the place where the efficacy of America's technological omnipotence would be conclusively demonstrated to the world. The thirty years of American involvement in Vietnam proved both those concepts false, Baritz includes, though for many they endure...
...hunt that Sen. Joseph McCarthy introduced into American public life extended long after Tail Gunner Joe drank himself to death. The mainstream, as represented by Eisenhower. Kennedy, and Johnson, was so afraid of re-awakening the venomous far-Right that it felt compelled to demonstrate its unflinching opposition to Communism around the world. It was perceived as soft on the Reds, it felt doomed. This is why liberal Harvard-educated Kennedy felt compelled to risk nuclear annihilation over missiles in Cuba, while Nixon, a man who made his reputation as a Red baiter, could embrace Mao Tse-tung with...
...among the last bastions of Stalinism. This is the legacy of Enver Hoxha (pronounced Hod-ja), Albania's leader since 1944, who died last week from heart disease at 76. For more than 40 years Hoxha kept his tiny country on what he considered the only true path to Communism: self-reliance, total party control and a suspicion of outsiders that led him to reject both the U.S. and the Soviet Union and to feud with China and Yugoslavia. He summed up his view of his country in 1967, when he banned all religious activities: "The only religion an Albanian...
QUOTE: "We do commit the U.S. to preventing the fall of South Viet Nam to Communism...
...peasants? Were the North Vietnamese under Ho Chi Minh austere and virtuous folk heroes, or murderous, Stalinist totalitarians who committed barbarities far worse than those of the Americans and South Vietnamese? Was Southeast Asia a line of dominoes waiting to fall, one after another, before the sinister push of Communism? Or was the region a complexity of nationalities, all different, with mutual historic antagonisms that predated the war and will endure when its 100th anniversary rolls around? Were the Americans a collection of baby killers, or basically honorable men doing their duty when the nation called? Were the soldiers...