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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...
...correspondent for an American news organization reporting continuously from Baghdad since the war began, albeit under the acknowledged control and censorship of the Iraqi government? Well, said Simpson, in a befuddled attempt to establish guilt by association, Arnett "is married to a Vietnamese whose brother was active in the Viet Cong...
...fact, the New Zealand-born Arnett and his wife have been separated for years. And although some friends and family members differ about the alleged Viet Cong connections of Arnett's in-laws, the issue is beside the point. Asked to explain the relevance of his remarks, an unrepentant Simpson would say only that such information is often revealed about public officials, rarely about journalists. Arnett, he added, "is being coddled by an enemy government...