Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paramount U.S. interest in Indochina today is stability to preserve the non-socialist regimes that remain, and stability to insure the safety of Japanese and American trade throughout the region. But without normalization the United States forfeits its influence in the area. As a Congressional Research Service study noted, "Vietnam is essential to any regional arrangement for resolving conflicts and preserving peace in Southeast Asia...
...border war Vietnam is waging with Cambodia and China, and the friendship treaty signed Friday with the Soviet Union highlight the weakness of current U.S. policy. There is now no way short of invasion that the United States can pursue its interest in preserving the Southeast Asian status quo. Senator McGovern's suggestion tha the U.S. attack Cambodia might yet be followed by an impassioned cry to bomb the bridges on the Yalu River...
...State Department official was content to say that Vietnam "was their problem now." In seeing Vietnam only as a semi-satellite nation of the Soviet Union, U.S. diplomats repeat, in an updated, streamlined, fully modern form, the same mistake of seeing Vietnam as a pawn of the Superpowers that got the U.S. involved in the war in the first place. During the war the U.S. sought to "save" the South to "contain" China. Now the whole region is seen only as a playpen for the client nations of the two Communist superpowers. The legitimate bilateral concerns that...
...must normalize diplomatic relations with Vietnam to demonstrate its commitment to refrain from using war as an instrument of foreign policy...
Forgetting the last war and pretending that Vietnam does not exist cannot lessen U.S. responsibility for the devastation it wrought there. The U.S. has a moral duty and sound pragmatic reasons for participating in the development of an economically rebuilt Vietnam. After all, the U.S. very nearly succeeded in simulating lunar conditions in Vietnam. Carter claimed last year that "the destruction was mutual (and that) we ought not to assume the status of culpability." This position is patently absurd in light of the destruction inflicted on both North and South...