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...table. My colleagues read it with astonishment rather than jubilation; they congratulated me but without real passion. For we all were ill at ease. I knew that unless the agreement that Le Due Tho and I had worked out could be enforced, the structure of peace for Indochina was unlikely to last. I would have been far happier with recognition for a less precarious achievement. I am prouder of what I accomplished in the next two years in the Middle East...
...Huntington devotes a good portion of the end of his book to justifying the sort of foreign policy that led to our involvement in Vietnam, a tortured agglomeration of Kirkpatrick-like nonsense and absurd historical claims. For example, he says that 1967, when 500,000 U.S. troops were in Indochina marked the "high point of democracy and political liberty in Vietnam." Clearly, Huntington labors under a simpleminded deception that confuses "elections" with freedom. Huntington is a brilliant man, like most of the men who, with him, planned the greatest immorality in our history; he would be well-advised to stop...
...wisdom at all). Soldiers, it has often been said, have the bad habit of waging the last war. Americans, in their current fretting over El Salvador, are similarly afflicted. Across the political spectrum, there is no one who wants to re-experience in Central America the defeat of Indochina. From that, the left is tempted to conclude: Better not to fight at all, anywhere, ever again. The right concludes the opposite: Fight somewhere, soon, only this time...
Still, it is inevitable, indeed understandable, that the Viet Nam analogy should arise in the context of the civil war in El Salvador. Precisely because the American debacle in Indochina was such a protracted, painful and preoccupying episode, it is sure to come to mind whenever the U.S. faces circumstances that are even superficially similar. Television coverage of El Salvador has provided some gnawingly familiar images: Marxist-led peasants vs. patrols of boy soldiers in ill-fitting uniforms and G.I.-style helmets, ambushes and massacres in the jungles, a trickle of American advisers into the embattled country, and, back...
With troubles elsewhere, Moscow cuts its Indochina...