Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learned in Vietnam, proportional response brings failure. Destroying oil platforms will not convince Iran to end its war with Iraq, to cease its attacks on shipping, or to stop its support of international terrorism. A radical, revolutionary regime that is indeed "stupid enough" to risk war with the United States, Iran only will respond by doing what it does best--escalation. And our undefined commitment in the Gulf will give us only one choice. That will be to follow, thereby passing on the initiative to Teheran...
...have sent to the Gulf the largest concentration of American military force since the Vietnam War. Let's use it. Air strikes against Silkworm missile sites and Iranian weapons factories would cripple Teheran's ability to attack shipping in the Gulf. And if Iran causes more trouble, the American task force could wipe out Iran's entire air force--all 26 planes--and then go to work on Teheran's precious Revolutionary Guards at the front. Even the TOW missiles we sold them wouldn't do them any good...
...should use its massive air and naval advantage to engage in hit-and-run tactics against this piddling power. Unlike Vietnam, the U.S. would neither have to occupy territory nor pursue any longterm strategic goals. The effort would be purely symbolic...
...servant backdrop of Isak Dinesen's tales. Three French visitors make a wrong turn on a back road and get fatally detained by Congolese troops. Fossey angrily tells her family, "They were reportedly tortured . . . hung on racks, finally eaten. The Congo can't be covered by the press, like Vietnam, thus no one knows what really happens." But Fossey knew and pressed on. The stubbornness killed her. Broken in health, stalked by resentful poachers, distrusted by colleagues and local officials, she sensed that she was doomed but could not turn back. Sifting the circumstantial evidence surrounding her death, Mowat finally...
...need only have recalled the comic-relief point of the 1984 presidential campaign when Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan quibbled over which side of the ballot the Boss was on. (Springsteen, to his credit, refused to comment). And when the message of the title song got jumbled from vehement Vietnam-vet outrage to raucous jingoism, it was clear that enough was enough...