Word: fought
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...mammouth screw-up. It ended in failure not because America tried to suppress a civil war it could neither control nor understand, but because the military hierarchy malfunctioned and the civilians in command lacked the will power to force matters to a successful conclusion. If only we had not "fought with one hand tied behind our back," America would have won this war just as it won all the others. Yorktown, Midway, Normandy, Da Nang--they're all the same. But this argument, implicit in the documentary and explicit in the statements of Ronald Reagan and others, reflects a dangerous...
...fought on because we thought we could justify with our guns the rule of an illegitimate government; it was not merely a matter of screwing up, or civilians not letting the soldiers do their job. We lost because we could not win a war in which our objectives were impossible. The great danger in our failure to recognize our errors in conception (not merely in execution) is that we will begin to think that with better planning or more firepower we will get it right the next time. The next time, perhaps in El Salvador or some place like...
...peculiar paradox his centenary witnesses: a nation eager to celebrate the memory of man whose legacy this same nation has only recently repudiated. Repudiated by electing a president and a Congress who have little compassion and much class consciousness; who would sully the memory of brave men who fought other, noble wars by engaging themselves in brutal repression abroad; who would reduce government from a friend of the people to a friend of the wealthy. Ronald Reagan stands for everything FDR stood against--he answers hard times with harder times; he sticks inflexibly to a single policy in the face...
...SEVERAL YEARS, students at this University fought to force Harvard out of South Africa. They rallied and marched, they researched and they wrote, they argued, and eventually, they lost. A Harvard Corporation more interested in income than justice refused to get rid of Harvard's holdings; it refused to condemn American investment in South Africa; and in the years since, it has refused to vote for almost any of the innocuous shareholder resolutions concerning the apartheid-ruled nation...
...students who fought so long did win one thing--a promise from the Corporation that it would no longer keep Harvard's money in banks that loaned funds directly to the South African government. Even for the financiers that run this University, the thought of directly supporting a blatantly racist government was indefensible. And so they did get rid of some notes sitting in the Manufacturers Hanover Trust treasury, and of a sizeable chunk of money in Citibank. They did it secretly; they did it slowly; but they did it, and it earned enough publicity to have at least...