Word: vietcong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sixties, Eddie Adams photographed Nguyen Ngoc Loan as he pulled a trigger inches from a Vietcong prisoner's head. Images of war's ravages in the Middle East, the deadly effects of the Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal, India, and the Challenger explosion have all been presented to the public eye. Our heart strings have been pulled, but our limits may have been reached. Larry Burrows, a war photographer who covered the Vietnam War, said it best: "What's the hardest thing of all? It's to keep feeling. Yet if you feel too much... you'd crack...
...side. If properly perceived and accepted, however, they may provide some basis for accommodation and an eventual compromise settlement." The presumption of what "will not please the extremists" belongs to pop psychology and is a rhetorical thrust which scholars can evaluate in light of the above false evaluation of Vietcong strength, for instance. Who are the "extremists," by the way? Huntington does not specify. He also states...
...Spokesmen for the Administration, on the other hand, have in the past underrated the strength of the Vietcong and have ascribed to the Saigon Government a popularity which has as little basis in fact as that which the critics attributed to the NLF... The misplaced moralism of the critics has thus confronted the unwarranted optimism of the advocates...
...when the memorandum states: "We agree with much of his analysis of the present situation..." But the State Department also expressed a serious reservation, namely, "There is a major point in the study about which Huntington is not clear: nowhere does he suggest how or when' elimination of the Vietcong forces and the retreat of the North Vietnamese regulars can be brought about to establish the preconditions which he describes...
Serge Lang is a professor of mathematics at Yale. commodation with isolated Vietcong Hamlets."Thus in this instance, the State Department sawthrough Huntington's verbiage, and that memorandumgives further evidence that Huntington's politicalopinions have "no basis in fact...