Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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United States policy in Vietnam has been guided primarily by one objective: containment of China. To say, on the one hand, that the U.S. is waging an imperialist war for private profits, is to deny the economic realities of the situation in Vietnam. And to maintain, as the Administration has, that the U.S. is defending the "freedom" of the South Vietnamese is to belie the political realities; from 1946 to 1954 the United States helped finance a French war against all of Vietnam, and since 1954 has supported a series of dictatorships in South Vietnam...
Those who urge war on North Vietnam maintain that this is the only way to salvage the military strategy that has failed up to now. This argument, which has found increasing acceptance in Washington, states that it is better to fight now, forcing China into a new Korea while her nuclear deterrent is still ineffective, than ten years from now, when China controls most of Southeast Asia and has a delivery system for her nuclear weapons. A new Korea would also give the United States an excuse to destroy the facilities which are developing China's deterrent...
...American press maintains that we are fighting against something called the Viet Cong, a small Communist guerilla group. We maintain that the U.S. is fighting against a peasant revolution, a military and political movement supported by the majority of the South Vietnamese peasantry...
...France was unable to maintain, control over the country-side. Faced with consolidated Communist power backed by the peasantry, they could only have found local support among the disinherited landlords and the remnants of the pre-war colonial administration. Attempts to re-establish the landlords failed, however, and the French were forced to fight a long and increasingly hopeless war against the Viet Minh, the peasant guerilla forces...
...dependents of Government and military personnel out of the country-a move long opposed by Taylor and Westmoreland. "We have no choice now," explained the President, "but to clear the decks and make absolutely clear our continued determination to back South Viet Nam in its fight to maintain its independence...