Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that it will be possible to sustain a viable non-communist government in the South. The notions of "Vietnamization" and an "honorable negotiated settlement" in Paris implied the delusion, but one could question how seriously they should be taken. When, however, we renew massive bombing raids with their indiscriminate slaughter, it seems clear that President Nixon and his top advisors either think that the South can survive as an independent entity, or they are committed to postponing its collapse until after the election. It if is the former, they are fools: if the latter, the most callous sort of political...
...more corrupt, who have already made their fortunes, would probably flee, and wisely so. The rest would stay and try to make their peace with the new regime. I am sure that some of them would be killed and some imprisoned, but probably not many. There was no mass slaughter in the North in 1955 and 1956. Most Vietnamese with strong feelings about political freedom have already left the country and those who remain have learned how to compromise...
...nations is essential if the U.S. is to lead the way in building a world stability." But this is not a question of international esteem for the United States's intervention in Vietnam: it is a question of whether we at home will permit our government to pursue the slaughter of the Vietnamese people and the destruction of their country...
...Minnesota's Walter Mondale said softly: "Coming into this chamber this morning to talk about the war in Indochina, I felt a deeply depressing sense of reliving all over again tragedies of the past which should be far behind us. We have been through so many springtimes of slaughter and folly and deception . . . Now in the spring of 1972, it is happening again...
...murder is not new. It occurred during the European plague epidemics of the 16th century, when hooligans plundered at will, sometimes cutting the throats of the sick. It was common during the Thirty Years War in the 17th century, when troops ravaged the countryside indiscriminately. New or old, wanton slaughter recalls the question posed by Nietzsche's red judge: "Why did this criminal murder?" Nietzsche's reply: "His soul wanted blood; he thirsted after the bliss of the knife...