Word: vietnamization
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...Clymer’s time in Russia got cut short when he got too close to a protest at the American embassy against the U.S. bombing of Vietnam. When the demonstrators, who were throwing rocks and bottles of ink, started beating Clymer up, he found himself separated from the other reporters covering the event...
Following student demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1969, administrators banned ROTC from campus. (Harvard students have participated in ROTC through MIT since the early 1970s.) And though the passions of Vietnam have since subsided, the military's policy of discriminating based on sexual orientation has made ROTC a lightning rod for criticism because it conflicts with the University’s non-discrimination policy...
Imagine if, when we bungled the relief efforts so badly after Hurricane Katrina, the Burmese army had stormed ashore in Louisiana to put things right. Whether it's conservatives spilling our young people's blood in Iraq and Afghanistan or liberals spilling their blood in Vietnam and Somalia, it's easy to determine that something must be done when you are not the one putting your life on the line. Steve Thorpe, HUNTINGTON WOODS, MICH...
...Their asinine chatter about killing people and their anti-American sloganeering were as ineffective as their bombs. But they did real harm. Their victims were liberals: the millions of people who were part of the mainstream antiwar movement and who later voted against Ronald Reagan. These people opposed the Vietnam War but didn't hate their country. They were horrified by violence and sincerely wanted the war to end. They believed in democracy, even when dismayed by the result. The slogan of the Underground, by contrast, was "Bring the war home." For strategic and psychological reasons, the Underground wanted...
...notion of doctrinal divisions among opponents of the Vietnam War must seem ridiculously arcane to most people today. But perhaps you can imagine how infuriating it was to the organizers of the big marches on Washington--struggling to keep them peaceful--that there were people of the left effectively in cahoots with the Nixon Administration, determined to undermine all those efforts...