Word: indochina
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...barbarians--or the Richard Nixons--ride into town. Perhaps future historians will chart the beginning of the fall of the American Imperium as that frenzied year of Tet and Chicago, 1968. Or maybe they will see it as our coming of age--in the highlands and paddies of Indochina the distinctions of war blurred into My Lai Four and the question became not just who was crazy and who was sane, but who was there and who was not. Westmoreland and LBJ were not there--they dreamed of conquering Gaul. Tim O'Brien, the ex-infantryman and former Washington Post...
Guess who's mired in Indochina...
Fighting raged once again in Indochina last week, and troops surged into Cambodia's Parrot's Beak region, where American forces in 1970 had made their highly controversial incursion. This time, however, the foes were two Communist nations that had survived and triumphed over U.S. might. Viet Nam and Cambodia (which now calls itself Democratic Kampuchea) challenged each other not only with deadly gunfire but with blasts of bitter propaganda, while their sponsoring powers, the Soviet Union and China, watched uneasily from the sidelines...
...confrontation was particularly difficult for Peking, which has feared just such a challenge ever since the end of the Viet Nam War. Once, Peking could win friends by accusing major capitalist powers-first the French, then the U.S. -of manipulating the colonial states of Indochina. Now the only villains are its fellow Communists...
...course, what this latest series of revelations really does is open the U.S. up to totally new versions of historical events--complete revisionism. The CIA could now proceed to rewrite all kinds of foreign events: the war in Indochina, the Middle East, the coup in Chile, ad nauseum. And no one would ever know what really happened. After all, if the CIA could bribe the Nieman Foundation--as it did during the '50s, when it persuaded the then curator to accept a Japanese journalist then in the employ of the intelligence agency--it has probably been able to bribe just...