Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artists in South Vietnam are not all venal. Some are; but many are just trying to exist in a terribly confused setting. What would happen to them if the North Vietnamese take over? The more corrupt, who have already made their fortunes, would probably flee, and wisely so. The rest would stay and try to make their peace with the new regime. I am sure that some of them would be killed and some imprisoned, but probably not many. There was no mass slaughter in the North in 1955 and 1956. Most Vietnamese with strong feelings about political freedom have...
...have no right or reason to continue, much less to expand a completely corrupt and corrupting war either to save a few of our "friends" or to postpone an inevitable failure. We should recognize that there is absolutely no hope for an independent, anti-communist regime in the South. Given that fact, the only way we can help the Vietnamese people is to get out of the country completely--military aid, CIA, the whole works--and let the Vietnamese work out their own accomodations and solutions...
...Escalating the war at this time is only one more arrogant act on the part of a corrupt Administration...
...great man who had every chance to reach the greatest height of human achievement," said Komla Gbedemah, who had built Nkrumah's party, then had to flee to escape imprisonment. "But halfway along the road he allowed bad advice and his own personal love for absolute power to corrupt him. The deprivations and sufferings he went through should be enough penance for the mistakes and sins he committed while ruling Ghana...
First, I think that these actions are immoral. To me, it is far more corrupt to kill indiscriminately from 2,000 feet up people one never sees by pushing a stainless steel bombadier's button than it is to fight on the ground...