Word: indochinas
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...recounts the entire history of American involvement in Vietnam, from the World War II days when Ho Chi Minh worked as a U.S. intelligence agent against the Japanese occupation, to the initial American opposition, to France's postwar attempt to reestablish its colonial empire in Indochina. America's attidue toward Vietnam changed, though, not because of any change in Ho Chi Minh or the Vietnamese liberation movement, but because of political events at home...
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Nixon sees the three decades of American engagement in Indochina as a litany of "too little, too late." He wishes Truman had forced the French to bring about an independent, non-Communist state. That having failed, he believes President Eisenhower ought to have sent in air support to relieve the French at Dien Bien Phu; as Ike's Vice President, Nixon says, he counseled that "our choice was to help the French now or be faced with the necessity of taking over the burden." He condemns President Kennedy for the overthrow of Diem, which he argues led to political instability...
...American lexicon of the 1960s and '70s, those words were synonyms for the enemy. In the paddy fields of Indochina, in jungles and deserts and tumbledown villages elsewhere around the world, leftist insurgencies seemed to be the cutting edge of Soviet expansionism, a principal cause of American retreat and defeat...
...Indochina, the site of America's humiliation a decade ago, a loose coalition of anti-Soviet states in the region is aiding a guerrilla war against the Vietnamese occupiers and Hanoi-installed puppet rulers of Kampuchea...