Word: indochina
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...underdeveloped" foreign nation was no longer "manifest." But Vietnam still failed to create any popular recognition that America's foreign policy is shaped within parameters set by the economic and political interests of this country's capitalist class. It failed to convey the fact that the Second Indochina War was more than the unfortunate mistake of otherwise good-hearted liberals, and that U.S. capitalists, as partners in international development agencies and multinational corporations, intend to continue their attempt to direct South Vietnam's resources, government, and economy for American benefit...
...imperialist summit. Garrisons and outright colonies are no longer needed; American investment and influence and aculture can usually penetrate the Third World unaided. But American military stands ominously in the background, ready to re-open the channels of direct domination if problems appear. Interventions-- Guatemala (1954), Cuba(1961) and Indochina(1961- )--demonstrate that American imperialism can revert to classical forms if the need arises...
Almost all Americans were diverted by the Cold War. They were deceived by their country's new brand of imperialism; on the long and brutal Indochina War removed the blinders from enough of them to create a significant anti-imperialist movement in this country...
...President Johnson's use of U.S. resources to fuel the Vietnam war at the expense of internal needs was a great tradedy for the American people. I raised the example of the Watergate hearings to explain why the American people had finally brought an end to U.S. bombing in Indochina; When people finally realized that they had been lied to--after watching the Watergate hearings and reading about the secret 1969-70 U.S. bombings of Cambodia-- they demanded a stop to those excesses. I explained that Americans like to think that they are doing the right thing; they are taxpayers...
...military expenditures which is above where it was a year ago, and which also continues to feed the inflationary fires. They do that in the face of improvement in our relations with China and the Soviet Union and in the face of the so-called peace settlement in Indochina. So I think there has been a diversion from sound economic policy and close attention to our economic problems that has been very painful to the country...