Word: vietnam
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...usual argument which members of this majority use to would-be interventionists centers around a comparison between Bosnia and Vietnam. Look no further than Gary J. Vachon, a Vietnam veteran, who voices his aversion to American intervention with the simple yet powerful exclamation of "Hell...
...previous columns, I have remembered the '60s and the '70s as a time when there were issues such as the sexual revolution, civil rights and the war in Vietnam to rally for. The spirit found in journalism and in the demonstrators at that time was inspiring, overwhelming and worthy of news. I have found it hard to equate anything of the sort happening in the 1990s with the exciting and purposeful causes of 20 years ago. Public service at Harvard and in the world at large can very well be that issue, that principle which moves us, the future...
...domestic politics. Neither Secretary of State Warren Christopher nor National Security Advisor Anthony Lake convey to the country that they are firmly in command even as the President is busy elsewhere. All the same, Clinton's foreign policy deserves more respect than it usually receives. He normalized ties with Vietnam, pushed the NAFTA and GATT trade agreements through Congress, propped up the Middle East peace process, deployed forces to Haiti--with almost no casualties--and worked out a deal to halt North Korea's nuclear-weapons program. His Partnership for Peace program has bought time for everyone in Europe...
Colin Powell built on conclusions reached by former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger of the hard-learned, post-Vietnam rules of engagement: commit troops only to clear-cut tasks, with the support of Congress and the public, and then go in with overwhelming force. Now he too is seeking fresher approaches to a changed world that is still riven by conflict. Last week Powell told an audience at Rice University, "New rules are needed; old assumptions need to be rooted out. The kind of warfare we had thought about for 50 years is gone...
...correspondent, Dunsmore reported on the Vietnam War and the fall of the Berlin Wall...