Word: indochina
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DURING THE LONG YEARS of the Indochina War, Thailand served as a giant aircraft carrier for the United States military, providing six bases where American bombers refueled before once again bombing Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Thailand was ruled by a rightist military dictatorship--headed by Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn--that used American aid to bulwark their own positions atop Thai society...
...York Times ruefully labeled the award the "Nobel war prize," while former Ambassador Edwin O. Reichauer, now a Harvard professor, said: "The fighting in Indochina will go on. Theirs was not a great achievement." Paris' prestigious Le Monde termed it a "masquerade," pointing out that Tho had spent his life committed to violent wars of liberation and that Kissinger was part of the American policy that reached its most unpeaceful moment in the Christmas bombing of Hanoi last year. In Saigon, a government spokesman was pleased enough with Kissinger, but he likened the selection of Tho to "nominating...
...Indochina has been forgotten and Elliot Richardson, one of the greater and lesser men responsible for the war crimes, is now a hero. Richardson, who never stood up for the Cambodian people, stood up for Archibald Cox '33. So he is the man of the hour, and Indochina is forgotten...
...crimes in Indochina were so brutal and monstrous that there is probably not enough compassion and courage in America to ever come to terms with them. The destruction and the killing in the Middle East in the past three weeks has been terrible, but that kind of warfare was waged in Indochina for ten long years...
...estimated 11 million people were murdered by the Hitler regime. The Indochina death toll is less exact, but it ranges somewhere between 1 1/2 to 2 million. The questions remain, but in a different formulation. For we are the Germans now, and all the Elliot Richardsons we can produce cannot save us from our guilt...