Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should pull out and come home. As far as going north, we know there are 200 million in the Chinese army. If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them...
...wanted to fight, but he wanted the scraps small, on the cheap, on the quiet, done and over in a hurry. Early in 1965 he was mad at everybody. "The let-us-negotiate people are rabbits. I'm being pushed all the time by the big- bomb boys. I took one target off the list the other night because it was too close to Hanoi. But if the South Vietnamese can't protect American installations, we might have to send more Americans over to do the job." More men. More bombs...
...application of direct U.S. military pressure is simply not feasible in Afghanistan; there are already some 115,000 Soviet troops there. Also, the Kremlin can fight fire with fire: most covert American aid to the mujahedin is channeled through Pakistan, a country that is painfully susceptible to "destabilization" by the Soviet Union. Logistically, it is easier to contemplate the introduction of U.S. combat troops into Central America, but the political obstacles there are considerable. Congress has made it clear that it opposes U.S. military intervention in the region...
Last week the Administration took what may be an important step in that direction. Having previously pursued a strategy of fight and talk--supporting the contras while promoting negotiations--the President shifted to a strategy of fight or talk--offering the Sandinistas a limited respite in the contra campaign as an inducement for them to enter serious negotiations...
...Dean Brelis, currently TIME's New Delhi bureau chief, memories of Viet Nam go back to 1950-51, when it was an embattled French colony. Ho Chi Minh, leader of Viet Nam's fight for independence, once told Brelis, "We will defeat the French, and if you make the mistake of staying here, we will defeat you." Recalls Brelis: "It was a warning I never forgot...