Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since Watergate and the Vietnam War has the nation undergone such comprehensive soul-searching. Gone are the relatively halcyon days of the 1950's when America was apple pie, the Star Spangled banner and wholesome values. The unsettling period of the late 1960's and early 1970's changed all that, as the Sexual Revolution and the hippie generation forced a rejection of traditional values...
...dramas and scandals over the past 20 years--Vietnam, Watergate, Wall Street--suddenly has had an impact," says Dillon Professor of French Civilization Stanley Hoffmann, who teaches a course on "Ethics and International Relations" at Harvard. Hoffmann adds that the country must now try to regain and transmit its values...
...FORCES IN South Vietnam seem to be trying everything short of outright fighting to stem the growing strength of the guerilla revolt. But plush relocation camps to concentrate the peasants and helicopter supply lifts cannot sustain unpopular President Diem's rule without direct U.S. military support. Even such military action, however, would be likely to succeed only in the distant future. If U.S. policy continues, as guerilla fighting spreads and more American troops pour into Vietnam, the U.S. will doubtless be involved, in a shooting capacity, with a long and messy jungle...
...giving middle-class white kids a cathartic rush by hearing about the troubles of poor Blacks. On another, the revival was disproving Lead-belly's famous statement that "never has a white man had the blues, 'cause nothin' to worry about." The kids may have been "alright," but from Vietnam to the H-bomb, they had plenty to worry about. These broad social issues were not the sort of thing blues singers had sung about in the past. White musicians like Bob Dylan, The Band, and The Rolling Stones added new irony and social critique to the fabric...
...invade Nicaragua, we have, of course, to win or lose. If we lose, we lose big, as in Vietnam, but more humiliating because of where Nicaragua is. If we win, we conquer the territory. If we conquer, we have to administer, either by ourselves or through a new creature of our imagination and potency such as the Somozas were, we can turn Central America, Mexico and much of South America into potential enemies and therefore into--by our own definition of enemy--Communists...