Word: recklessness
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...though it may not help to treat this as a condition for, instead of a consequence of, peace. We may need to prepare some kind of asylum opportunities for individual South Vietnamese who may feel that they have to leave when the last American troops leave. Meanwhile, it is reckless for American officials to raise the specter of a bloodbath. That could be an argument for staying in Viet Nam forever...
Many of these "commitments" are more apparent than real, since they cannot be carried out without the approval of Congress. The purpose of these agreements, as the late Senator Walter George once noted, was to deter potential aggressors "from reckless conduct by a clear-cut declaration of our intentions." Often it has been shown that intentions cannot be made all that clear-resulting in misunderstanding by friend and foe alike...
...last year that no one was supposed to know about and even, it is rumored, gave a large donation to the Israeli government." Dylan denies giving money to Israel or to the fanatical Jewish Defense League, but he confesses great admiration for that "Never again" action group and its reckless leader Rabbi Meir Kahane. "He's a really sincere guy," says Bob. "He's really put it all together...
...That is not easy." Last week The Second Year of the Nixon Watch was published (Liveright; $5.95) and the Osborne view had changed as little as the book title. He writes: "Mr. Nixon, with his shifts from the stately style and sound content of his formal messages to his reckless rhetoric on the campaign stump, seems to me to make anything approaching a sustained belief in his wisdom, his compassion, his courage, his good faith impossible...
...such group-Crazy Chris's Crew-pursued their mission with reckless abandon...