Word: mistrust
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...virtually impossible to distinguish between the Viet Cong and non-communist Vietnamese," he explained, and as a result. American military men in Vietnam indicate a growing mistrust of all Vietnamese civilians...
...both the Dominican and Vietnamese wars, much of the mistrust of U.S. policy is related to the belief held by many intellectuals that the Communist threat would disappear if the free world would only quit fighting it. Some Americans, said Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy after returning from Santo Domingo, seem to think that "the bear will turn into a golden retriever if only we treat him that way." Bundy argued pointedly: "There is in many-and perhaps especially among those whose concern is for ideas and ideals, and those whose hope is primarily for peace and progress-a reluctance...
...elders' reaction is to abuse him for his weakness. Detail upon horrifying detail is piled with detachment and cold wit. There is no way out of this stifled society; "the giant dwarfs" live what become grotesquely normal day-to-day lives, circumscribed by grossness and materialism, adulterated by mistrust so consuming as to kill off any human emotion...
...Mistrust Melts...
...Nixon's use of the floundering war in Viet Nam for political hay is to be deplored. His proposal, if carried out. would perhaps not involve us in a hot war with Red China, but it would certainly earn us the lasting hatred and mistrust of millions of Southeast Asians...