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...fair to call this mood a new form of isolationism? Columnist Walter Lippmann, for one, does not shrink from the word: "If it is said that this is isolationism, I would say yes. It is isolationism if the study of our own vital interests and a realization of the limitations of our power is isolationism. It is isolationism as compared with the globalism which became fashionable after the Second World...
Something Better. To Walter Lippmann, from the start it was "a grievous mistake to have involved ourselves so much in a part of the world where it is impossible for a non-Asian country to win a war against Asians." Nor, in Lippmann's view, did proponents of a "clean war" in Viet Nam-one fought in the skies rather than on the ground-have any case: "The fact is, that if we make the Vietnamese struggle 'our war,' we shall have to fight on the ground to hold South Viet Nam. There is no use fooling...
...continues to let things drift, said Lippmann, "I am inclined to think that American intervention will end, not with a bang but with a whimper. We ought to try for something better than that." Lippmann's "something better" called for nothing less than U.S. withdrawal, not only from Viet Nam. but from all of the Asian mainland. "It will be done as part of some much larger and more elaborate diplomatic proposal and action-one directed at something far bigger than South Viet Nam-at an Asian settlement from Siberia to the Himalayas, from the Mekong to the Yalu...
That sounds, of course, like a call for a complete U.S. retreat. But Lippmann has a fall-back plan that might not save face but will keep some troops nearby. "To promote the eventual negotiation," he wrote last June, it should be made clear "that it is not our intention to withdraw and wash our hands. It is no less essential to make military dispositions in the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean, which make it clear that when our troops withdraw from the mainland, the American presence will remain...
...second alleged inconsistency, referred to ad nauseam by Walter Lippmann, is that Goldwater wants to "restore law and order" while reducing federal power. Lippmann fails to realize that, in Goldwater's opinion, the federal government and liberal ideology are largely responsible for the problem. The idea that "society is responsible" and the downgrading of property rights encourage irresponsibility, while regulations of vast complexity and questionable equity allow people to break the law without feeling guilty...