Word: validation
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Galbraith contends that the U.S. went into Viet Nam under the mistaken notion that it was fighting "a centrally directed Communist conspiracy." In the light of the Moscow-Peking split, he adds, that notion is no longer valid, and the U.S. ought to quit wasting its energies there at the expense of domestic needs and of other, more important areas, such as Japan and India. Viet Nam is "the wrong place to make a stand," he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1966. "If we were not in Viet Nam, all that part of the world would be enjoying...
Such restriction is often beneficial. At its best, it amounts to a requirement for valid explanation, for honest justification of U.S. actions. But as Lyndon Johnson continues to seek a consensus of approval, he remains a prisoner of critics who are often capricious. Many of the same people who urged Franklin Roosevelt to come to the aid of the Spanish Republic and fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War now call for a retreat from a fight against Communism in Viet Nam. One of their reasons: it is a civil war. Some of the loudest dissenters from any U.S. military...
...Advocate isn't objected to by former editors, it isn't doing its job," Stewart said. "The past image of starchy traditionalism is not valid; we have always attempted to keep up with the developing trends in literature," he added...
...best way to convert a poor white or a Harvard student into a political activist is to show him that the anti-war movement offers valid alternatives to a tour in Vietnam. This is what draft resistance is all about...
...broadside levelled by Paul Cowan and the other ex-Volunteers from Educator ("The Peace Corps: An Indictment," CRIMSON, Jan. 17) makes a few valid points, but it strays far from the mark in its categorization of the Peace Corps as "arrogant" and "colonialist...