Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When the Vietnam War ended in 1975 it was hard for many people in the anti-war movement to realize that what they had been participating in was just that--a movement to end the American military presence in Indo-China. Many tried to maintain the energy of the movement, but without a concrete focus the previously united activists drifted away into their own areas of interest. Even the U.S. complicity in the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Chile was unable to revive the old coalition...
...morality" of the Carter administration dismisses the horrors of Vietnam and Chile as characteristic of a bygone era. The U.S. is in the process of re-thinking and re-aligning itself to protect what remains of its global power. Admiral T.H. Moorer, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed this shift in testimony before the U.S. Senate...
...Since Vietnam, then, the Pentagon has been forced to adopt a lower profile, but it has lost none of its militarism nor has it modified its insistence on continuing nuclear armaments production and arms race escalation...
...choose between them. Foreign policy has become domestic policy. Those who propose real changes in our society, therefore, must bring these issues into every possible political arena--from the electoral campaigns and the unions to the churches and the streets. Such a movement was successful when organized against the Vietnam War. It can be done again...
...manner in which the upgrading was handled displays a painful double standard of justice for those who resisted during the war in Vietnam. Draft evaders, who were generally white, middle-class, and college-educated, received a blanket pardon. Deserters, however, who were largely black, poor, or ill-educated, were given the burden of applying to have their discharges upgraded to erase the official stigma. Those who were aware of the program, who were not afraid of battling the bureaucracy once more, and who were eligible for the program, were given upgraded discharges. But the process should have been much simpler...