Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...premier issue of a new annual magazine has appeared on some racks. It is called Vietnam Combat, subtitled The Blood, the Guts & the Glory of the American GI. The magazine romanticizes the war and its warriors, details battle strategy, and best of all, for just $2.95, describes the American victory. A considerably more serious project is a 20-volume history, overseen by Robert Manning, former editor of the Atlantic, and distributed by TIME-LIFE Books, called The Vietnam Experience. Originally intended to sell about 120,000 copies, it has stirred enough interest so that its press run will probably...
...customary reward of defeat, if one can survive it, is in the lessons thereby learned, which may yield victory in the next war. But the circumstances of our defeat in Vietnam were sufficiently ambiguous to deny the nation (that) benefit...
DRAWING ANALOGIES from history is risky business, but nevertheless there was something about the MX battle unmistakably reminiscent of the early days of Vietnam. In debating the correctness of our involvement there, successive Administration managed nearly to ignore the actual situation in that complicated little country where the odds were heavily stacked against a successful U.S. intervention. Insisted on using Vietnam as an arena in which to demonstrate to friend and foe alike our readiness to resist communism anywhere and everywhere in the world. In addition, foreign servicemen, bureaucrats and lawmakers all backed this position not for its merits, which...
...overlooked aspect of the Vietnam years was that the Johns Administration's refusal to raise taxes in order to finance its war effort ultimately triggered years of inflation and economic havoc. Should the current Administration's thriftless policies lead to economic crisis public opinion will surely turn against arms programs and Congressman will regret having shot their expensive wad on a marginally effective bunch of missiles at the expense of some future sound and necessary system. If there is a lesson to be learned from Vietnam, it is that when government take the right stand in the wrong place they...
...best, divestiture exemplifies the moral isolationism which American liberals have been practicing since Vietnam condemning others to misery for the sake of keeping there own hands clean. At worst, divestiture represents veiled support for violent resolution in South Africa, some of its proponents clearly hope that divestiture will depress the South African economy sufficiently to create a climate for revolution...