Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line like this can be found in most films about Vietnam, films that seek to portray a tragically mistaken policy of a great nation sucked into a faraway land it did not know, to fight a war it could...
...level of public concern about ethical issues waxes and wanes; Watergate prompted a reassessment of ethics in government and the Vietnam War provoked a rejection of American militarism. Today, the Wall Street insider trading cases and the rash of corporate takeovers have sparked a scrutiny of business ethics...
Proponents of integrating ethics into the educational system say that an entire generation--the product of post-Vietnam disillusionment--has been educated in an ethical void. They argue that it is through education that new standards will be transmitted. But they add that there is a fine line between concern for ethics in the educational system and a bias toward outmoded ethical systems, which represents a return to the days of religion and the pledge of allegiance...
However, as O'Neill matured politically he began to involve himself in debates on national issues. In 1967, he led a small handful of Democratic Congressmen in rebelling against President Lyndon B. Johnson's leadership by opposing the escalation of the Vietnam...
...find ourselves faced with a return to the cynicism and mistrust that we are told characterized the post-Vietnam era. The irony, of course, is that Reagan was elected to the presidency promising to overcome the often paralyzing effects of such a national state of mind and "get America moving again." But a renewed skepticism about public figures, be they political or religious leaders, need not be something to dread. In fact, it is something to be desired, a basic tenet of any truly democratic democratic theory...