Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Charles Krauthammer is living in the 18th century. In "Why We Must Contain China" [ESSAY, July 31], he talks about "renewing the U.S.-Japan alliance" to safeguard our Pacific security. What Pacific security? The Vietnam War was fought, in the Krauthammerian sense, to contain China. We still haven't quite recovered from it, emotionally or financially. And now must we rush into the arms of our former enemies, Japan and Vietnam, as Krauthammer proposes, to contain ''the emerging giant of the 21st century"? I am all for pressuring China to liberalize its stance on human rights and other issues...
...Viet Dinh, one of Fried's former students, recalled how Fried had assisted with attempts to free his sister from a refugee camp in Hong Kong after she had fled Vietnam...
...understandable that President Clinton is hesitant, even fearful of repeating the tragedy of Vietnam. It is so very important to learn from the lost lives, hopes and dreams that came from Vietnam. Bosnia is not Vietnam...
Whether or not Vietnam was a just was is a question that I cannot pretend to answer. The history behind Vietnam is terribly complex and almost impossible to unravel even in hindsight. The men that fought and died in Vietnam should be honored to the fullest extent possible. America called them to serve, and they went. But, for all the pain and suffering that it caused so many people across the world, Vietnam is done. For all it was and was not worth, Vietnam is done, and policy makers of today can not let the shadows of the past control...
...battle. The generals at Flanders were fighting previous wars as they sent their boys leaping out of the trenches to almost certain death. Their inability to let the past go cost thousands of young men their lives. In the same way, President Clinton's inability to let go of Vietnam is costing thousands of Bosnian Muslims their lives...