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...Viet Nam experience unique for those who fought it? History would have to go on a manically inventive jag to top Viet Nam for wild, lethal ironies and stage effects-"a black looneytune," Writer Michael Herr called it in his Viet Nam masterpiece Dispatches, Indochina became the demented intersection of a bizarrely inventive killer technology (all of those "daisy cutters" and carpet-laying B-52s and mad swarms of choppers and infra-red nightscopes) with a tunnel-digging peasantry in rubber-tire sandals: the amazing, night-dwelling Victor Charlie...
...soft on the Soviet challenge. There is little question that many Americans were ready for a tough stance-and, indeed, that one was necessary-given the U.S.S.R.'s recent record of what Winston Lord, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, has called "geopolitical arrogance" in Africa, Indochina and Afghanistan...
...West. The U.S. has some important old friends in East Asia, notably Japan, as well as a big if problematic new one, the People's Republic of China. East Asia also contains two perennial trouble spots that could be flash points of superpower confrontation-the Korean peninsula and Indochina. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who has returned from an extensive East Asian tour, reports...
...which it relied for decades to protect and advance its interests no longer seem to work very well -if at all. American diplomatic efforts, with few exceptions, have ended in frustration. Henry Kissinger's attempt to negotiate "peace with honor" in Viet Nam produced neither peace for Indochina nor honor for the U.S. (in part, because Congress blocked him on some key issues). The Camp David peace accords, one of President Jimmy Carter's few foreign policy achievements, have foundered on Israel's refusal to consider an agreement that would provide real autonomy for the Palestinians...
...Sino-American relationship too much the cast of an anti-Soviet alliance. Such an alliance would be politically provocative without being militarily formidable-a highly undesirable combination. With or without U.S. assistance, the Chinese military will be extremely backward for some time to come. In a crisis (over Indochina, say) with Washington and Peking allied against them, the Soviets might be tempted to attack just China, and thus call the bluff that the China card represents in strictly military terms...