Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Five days before the 20th anniversary of the United States' withdrawal from Vietnam, former U.S. secretary of defense Robert S. McNamara told an overflow crowd at the Institute of Politics last night that he was "wrong, terribly wrong" in prolonging the Vietnam...
...recent book In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam has garnered enormous publicity nationwide in the last two weeks...
...audience fully applauded McNamara onlyonce, when he said, in reference to his fourthquestion about the lessons that Vietnam taught,that leaders are not omniscient...
...different. The moral here is not to confirm from an old man's confessions that he was really responsible for a wrong war. Rather, as McNamara points out, the main reason that he has convinced himself to speak is to help us find "something we can take away from Vietnam that is constructive and applicable to the world of today and tomorrow." Or, to put in a Dan Quayle way, let's discuss wars in terms of not having them...
With the pains in Vietnam gradually fading away, we witness that the U.S. is again determined to assume the ambitious responsibility of serving as the world's police. American troops are sent virtually everywhere around the globe. There are occasions when shadows of a Vietnam style of war appear just at our proverbial door-step. Fortunately, America at least hasn't lost any of these small-scale wars...