Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hiep Chu, a panelist and former Vietnamese refugee, said in Vietnam, health care is virtually non-existent, so Vietnamese-Americans do not use health care services until it's too late...
With that focus on what Kennedy had to work with, Reeves has come up with fresh and fascinating material on the confrontations in Cuba, Berlin and Vietnam and on the "chummy" correspondence between Kennedy and Soviet boss Nikita Khrushchev after the Cuban missile crisis (Khrushchev confided, for example, that Kennedy's election victory over Richard Nixon "did not draw tears from our eyes...
...another chance. "Sure, this is nothing compared to 1991, nothing," insisted bearded retired Navy Captain H.P. ("Jeep") Streeper, also 72, a skipper of the U.S.S. Hancock in Vietnam and a pilot with 800 carrier landings. "But that's what we want, a tone-down. It'll be a couple of years before we get back to battery...
...long time. And it is also a very old story when the most wholesome moral intentions (such as the American desire to feed starving Somali children) lead down a road into nightmares of entanglement and unintended consequences. The best, brightest American policy thinking went off a cliff in Vietnam, for example...
...strange how many ghosts hover around Somalia. There is, of course, the big dark ghost of Vietnam, that formative evil myth of Clinton's generation. That war, like the Somalia conflict, was dominated by images injected into the American psyche -- the Viet Cong in a plaid shirt being shot in the head point-blank by Saigon's police chief during the Tet offensive, for example. The experience of Vietnam issues its warnings ("quagmire" and so on), but strangely, Bill Clinton the old war resister last week used much the same rhetoric of steadfastness and honor that Lyndon Johnson used when...