Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this respect, just how real is the danger of a Communist bloodbath? Might there be a slaughter, as Richard Nixon once predicted, that would engulf "hundreds of thousands [of South Vietnamese] who had dared to oppose Communist aggression...
...victims was the national conscience, which was never able to reconcile America's lofty intentions with the slaughter that appeared every evening on the TV screens. In a melancholy, prophetic book, Tragedy and Philosophy, Princeton Philosopher Walter Kaufmann departed briefly from his discussion of ancient Greek and Elizabethan plays to mention Viet Nam. His explanation of why the U.S. seemed somehow unable to quit the war in 1968 is a therapeutic jolt for those who prefer not to recall the recent past. "If we stop, our guilt is palpable," he wrote, "all this hell for nothing. Hence we must...
...that Lon Nol's "only claim to distinction" is the fact that his name is a palindrome. But the liberal papers, always less confident than their more consistent brothers, seem to have been held back by a guilty suspicion that their items might have something to do with past slaughter by the Unites States, or future killings by the NLF, or maybe both. While a Tribune reporter asked Ford if American involvement in Vietnam had been wasted, the Washington Post warned that a similar question--about whether American sacrifices had been "unwarranted" --involved "trifling with the deep sensibilities...
...South Viet Nam. The Democratic Senators argued the matter for more than two hours as South Dakota's James Abourezk led opposition to aid. He complained that the political maneuvering over Cambodia seemed to center more on "whom to blame" when Cambodia falls than on "ending the slaughter...
...more likely if Congress approves more aid than if not. The Khmer Rouge are fighting a war against their own countrymen and will have to establish a new government as a first order of business, a task which would only be more difficult in the wake of a civilian slaughter. Continuing the aid will guarantee a bloody, protracted struggle for the city, Congress should refuse the aid and begin to work with the Khmer Rouge to reassert Cambodian self-determination and repair the damage of half a decade...