Word: communisme
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That attitude began to change after 1960, when Catholics "arrived" with the election of John F. Kennedy as President. Then Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council muted the church's fierce anti-Communism and emphasized social justice and peace. Vatican II also led, in 1967, to an upgrading of the U.S. hierarchy's modest Washington office into the U.S. Catholic Conference, which now employs a staff of 250 people working on religious as well as social issues...
...proposal represents a dramatic about-face in Administration policy. For the past few months, Washington has attempted--with often counter-productive results--to paint the Sandinistas as Soviet lackeys bent on exporting Communism to the rest of Central America...
...Indochina are worse now than they were during the three decades of war in that region from 1945 to 1975, when a settlement of sorts emerged. The Salient has featured an extensive article by a former North Vietnamese leader who now rails against the failures and lies of communism in his homeland. The campus conservatives have presented similar characters at public demonstrations, and the rhetoric is predictable: The United States precipitated the horrors of communist rule by pulling out. The Cold Warriors could have told...
...opportunity to establish mutually productive relations with the Vietnamese slipped away because Washington preferred to undermine a left-wing government (read: monolithic communism) rather than endorse self-determination through democracy. Fearing a leftist victory in any free election, the United States openly sabotaged the Geneva accords of 1954 and subsequently intervened directly with military aid ultimately sending off half a million troops to continue the misguided campaign...
When the conservative revisionists argue that communism is the source of all hardship in Indochina, they hypocritically ignore the more important role of America's twisted, self-destructive foreign policy. And when they point a quavering finger at the red specter looming over Central America, they make the same egregious over-sign. The United States planted the seed of violent conflict in nations such as Salvador and Nicaragua by maintaining obedient dictatorships and failing to nuture genuine democracy. It is the force of war that rips the soul from third world societies, not the power of one or another...