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Ethics aside, U.S. involvement is also alarming from a military viewpoint. The Chinese and Russians can hardly react favorably to increasing American military personnel. Indeed, military aid to North Vietnam from Communist bloc countries has grown considerably in the past few months and the Chinese have already made threatening noises. The geography of South Vietnam makes it rather easy for guerillas in the South to receive military reinforcement from the North. The only way then to win the war conclusively would be to eliminate these supply lines. And this would mean fighting in North Vietnam, which could lead...
...This fear in us is deep and indispensable--indispensable when we are climbing mountains or looking out windows, and so deep that we react to its promptings instantaneously and without thought...
...more cowardly than Frondizi." Then Castro shifted his glare to an old foe, Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt, who recently sharply criticized Argentina's military for overthrowing President Arturo Frondizi. Cried Castro: "Who is Señor Betancourt but a murderer of workers and students? And how does he react in the face of the Argentine case? Like a blushing prostitute...
...driving the subject from relative sanity to madness in less than a day, by using a peculiarly inhuman sort of disorder (the girl expects God to come through a wall), and by eschewing both the flashbacks and the reminiscences that might give perspective upon the way those around her react to her disintegration...
Just as conservatism reflects moral rigidity, liberalism reflects permissiveness. Being a relativist in intellectual outlook and a devotee of the scientific method, the liberal lacks morals, accepts expression of all views, and refuses to react against "statism." What Mr. Evans says suggests an extremely interesting conclusion which he himself shies away from. The conservatist he describes seeks the freedom to indulge in self-perfection (insofar as perfection is achievable); the liberal seeks the freedom of self-expression. The extent of the difference--in fact, contradiction-- between these two concepts of freedom is best expressed by the conservatives' reluctance to permit...