Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were also, as he said, "the guardians at the gate" against the communist aggression; but what kind of aggression is it when the Vietnamese people are in their own country, arbitrarily divided, when the only foreigners in Vietnam are the troops of a western people, who also defend the feudal structure of the local society, the oppression of peasants and the corruption of the leading class...
Continued Johnson: "We are in Viet Nam to fulfill one of the most solemn pledges of the American nation. Three Presidents-President Eisenhower, President Kennedy and your present President-over eleven years have committed themselves and have promised to help defend this small and valiant nation. Strengthened by that promise, the people of South Viet Nam have fought for many long years. Thousands of them have died. Thousands more have been crippled and scarred by war. And we just cannot now dishonor our word, or abandon our commitment, or leave those who believed us and who trusted...
...conception of ourselves as the policeman of mankind is a dangerous form of selfdelusion. It is dangerous to profess and pretend that we can be the policeman of the world. How many more Dominican Republics can the U.S. police in this hemisphere? How many Viet Nams can the U.S defend in Asia...
...Trib was piqued enough to offer an editorial answer the same day: "When Mr. Lippmann asks how many Viet Nams the U.S. can defend in Asia, perhaps the best reply is an indirect one. How many are there to be? And if we yield in the present confrontation, how much more difficult will be the next? For better or for worse, the U.S. is the 'policeman' on which the threatened peoples in China's expansionist path depend for whatever hope they have of independence and freedom...
...eager to rescue Britain again. For Labor, which governs by a three-vote majority, the new deflationary steps are fraught with risk. Since taking office last October, the government has scrapped almost its entire program of social change and has taken $2.3 billion out of the economy to defend the pound -on which its political life now hangs...