Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vermont's Senator George Aiken proposed that the U.S. disentangle itself from Vietnam by declaring victory and withdrawing. America should think < about a variation on the Aiken scenario in order to begin leaving behind its fatal domestic quagmire of race. The nation should decide that, in order to rescue everyone's honor -- above all, that of African Americans -- it is time to withdraw from an untenable dynamic, from the racial equivalent of what the French generals in Indochina called "bad country...
...saturated fat of the redneck). Well, good racism does not drive out bad. It is weak-minded and dangerously innocent to think one can enlist an immoral principle (sorting out individuals by race) in the service of social justice. The battle against bad racism becomes (like the war in Vietnam) not only unwinnable but self-perpetuating. And worse: the effort to combat racism grows evil in itself...
...Adriatic Sea off the Balkan coast to provide support for NATO. The Pentagon was quick to point out that the action was a precaution and did not signify U.S. involvement in the conflict, much less the commitment of American ground troops. Karadzic declared that the U.S. risks another Vietnam by sending Marines to the region...
After all, didn't one William Jefferson Clinton flagrantly dodge the draft back in the Sixties? During the Vietnam War didn't Clinton organize protests against has own country while on scholarship at Oxford...
...view of the future. Sinister forces and evil aliens might lurk behind every star cluster, but on the bridge of the Enterprise, people of various races, cultures and planets work in utopian harmony. Their adventures, in the early days, were often allegories for earthbound problems like race relations and Vietnam -- problems that were solved with reason. A key concept of the show, which began during the Vietnam War, was the Prime Directive. It stated that the Enterprise crew must not interfere with the normal course of development of any civilization they might encounter...