Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among themselves, the officials are not always even cautious. "We are winning going away," one field-grade officer in Viet Nam wrote to a Pentagon colleague last week. Not long ago a presidential aide mused: "The reports from the field are so incredibly good that we don't talk about them. We don't dare." Thus the optimistic talk is muffled. "Nobody around here is going into a dream world," an Administration expert insists. "Washington has been through this many times before." The American generals in Viet Nam, from U.S. Commander Creighton Abrams on down, sedulously forgo...
...Viet Cong control has dropped from 30% to 3.2% . The 92% figure includes "A" hamlets, where the V.C. apparatus has been eliminated; "B" hamlets, where the V.C. threat has been largely neutralized; and "C" hamlets, which are subject only to infrequent V.C. harassment. Some students of the war have long questioned the accuracy and significance of pacification statistics. "You may not believe the 92%," a U.S. mission official concedes, "but the basis on which it is reported is exactly the same on which we reported far lower figures earlier in the game." Thus even if the numbers are off, they...
...than the House version, which put the allowance at 20%. The difference -which amounts to about $100 million in tax revenues for each percentage point-will be resolved in conference. But neither the House nor the Senate ventured to restrict the oilmen's privilege to deduct for depletion long after the costs of drilling have been recovered many times over...
...words were wistful and defensive, and they raised an issue that has long stirred controversy in the U.S.: civilian limitations on the use of military power. Most top military officers refrain from public alibis, criticism and rebukes. But many privately agree with Westmoreland's complaint, and there are signs that a stab-in-the-back, or Versailles, complex is developing. Some officers contend that they were not permitted to move quickly, massively and without restrictions-either on bombing targets or in hitting enemy sanctuaries along Viet Nam's borders-once the decision was made in 1965 to commit...
...manpower was ordered, and that their suggestions for committing up to 750,000 troops as soon as they could be assembled were ignored. "Gradualism was the classic mistake of the McNamara crowd," sums up one Pentagon officer. Says another: "The American people won't support a long war-but they would have supported a short one if we had got in and got out quickly...