Word: viet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other wars, however, arise because the combatants misunderstand each other. That was true of Vietnam. The U.S. saw the Viet Cong as foot soldiers of an international army commanded by the Soviet Union and, in the crucial early years, by China...
...this cover story fails to convince the colonel's already suspicious seniors. The lie soon unravels -- accelerated, in part, by General Creighton Abrams' antipathy for the Green Berets. By early August, only six weeks after the killing, the Associated Press breaks the story: BERET CHIEF, 7 aides charged in viet killing...
America isn't afraid of "the Vietnamese" anymore--we now understand that the war may have had as much to do with American politicians as with Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. Kissinger sounded like a relic, pushing a party line we're all embarrassed to hear...
...North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify a country that had been artificially divided. While they were doing so under a now discredited political banner, they still had the powerful force of nationalism on their side. The Bosnian Serbs, by contrast, are fighting to perpetuate their domination over large parts of a country that had been artificially unified...
...ride from Austin?" cried Perot, who then explained that Hanoi was only 24 hours away by air, and we should saddle up, ride out and get 'em. He further urged the State of Texas to deploy a delegation of local leaders to confront the Pathet Lao and the Viet Cong and to demand the release of Texas POWS. Our then Governor, known to all as POP Smith, for Poor Ol' Preston, was intellectually challenged by the task of getting from the Mansion to the Capitol every day. You could almost hear the entire legislature gulp at the mind-boggling prospect...