Word: indochina
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Mary McCarthy has written that Watergate is the round-about way for Americans to try to come to terms with the Indochina War. Americans are unwilling to look directly at a decade of genocide in Indochina, McCarthy says, so they flagellate themselves about the thieves and the crooks in Washington...
People who share our belief that Nixon should have been impeached years ago because his conduct of the Indochina war was unconstitutional, repressive, and murderous, should write to their representatives to call for impeachment...
...national security purposes, I repeat, they are totally worthless. Certainly, massive military forces can serve Pentagon aggressive purposes as in Korea and Indochina. Without military conscription, limited wars of naked and raw agression such as in Korea and Indochina would become impossible. It is absolutely absurd, it seems to me, to argue that a massive foreign military force could invade the United States in the thermo-nuclear age, and therefore we must be prepared to repel it with a massive military force. This is on a par with the biggest propaganda lies ever proposed by Goebbels and Hitler...
Ford, however, does not represent lost ground for President Nixon. He has stood even more unswervingly behind his party leaders than Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R-Penn.). Since 1968, this has meant determined support for the war in Indochina, a fact warmly cited by President Nixon in his televised address last Friday. His routinely partisan politics--which may make him a weak candidate in any election outside his stronghold in Grand Rapids--have been all but ignored in the celebrations that have followed the Nixon speech...
...ruptures that are spreading across contemporary U.S. society are more difficult to analyze, but few would disagree that the past decade has brought unprecedented change. The defeat in Indochina and an increasingly fragile economy have reduced U.S. power in the rest of the world; a growing class of college-educated young people has appeared which increasingly questions that American order. Watergate, the growth of the Wallace movement, antiwar demonstrations, the crisis of the dollar in international money markets; the puzzle has yet to be put together in a satisfactory way but the pieces are certainly there. It is hardly...