Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...improved hospital care, in partial conquest of such killers as cancer and heart disease, will make life better for the old and will undoubtedly add to population pressures...
...classic World War II sense was impossible under the conditions imposed by the Red Chinese and the Soviets and the nature of the war. The Pentagon should have tried harder to persuade its civilian commanders that both ought to narrow their goals. They could hope to prevent a conquest of South Viet Nam and bolster the South Vietnamese forces for a limited time-and that, perhaps, is all that the President and the nation should have expected to accomplish in Viet Nam. Military men have often said that they were asked to fight the Viet Nam War with one hand...
...firmly a product of the 1950's. In President Nixon's eyes, we are still the defenders of "peace and freedom" abroad. We are still scrambling from firefight to firefight in a righteous struggle against those "great powers who have not yet abandoned their roles of world conquest." The Communist Monolith rides again, and the dominoes clink and totter on all sides; in Thailand, Indonesia, yes, even in the Philippines (only a few miles off shore). If you closed your eyes, you could hear Lyndon Johnson or John Foster Dulles...
...They included the need to protect Vietnamese minorities, especially the Catholics, from enemy atrocities and to avoid a "collapse of confidence" in U.S. leader ship. Speedy withdrawal, the President said, would "promote recklessness in the councils of those great powers who have not yet abandoned their roles of world conquest...
Charles DeGaulle once said of the sudden German invasion and conquest of France in the terrible days of May, 1940, "It was a bolt of lightning that lit up the darkened sky and revealed the Third Republic in all its ghastly infirmity." Perhaps bursting bombs and burning huts have done the same for the American Republic...