Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faster, 1965, Twenty thousand activists tally of the Mall for the Match on Washington to End the War in Vietnam. "The problems of America cry out for attention, and our entanglement in South Vietnam postpones the confrontation of these issues while prolonging the misery of the people of that war torn land," reads a petition to Congress presented by the crowd to a Capitol policeman, the only in dividual on hand to receive...
...undeclared war in a far-off tiny country capture the attention of America's Left in just two short years? What pushed Vietnam protests from the fringe of the fringe to the center of the fringe, and later to the center of the center' Who Spoke Up? doesn't have the answers to these questions, but what it does have is a lovingly detailed, encyclopedic, narrative account of American protest against the Vietnam...
...mock heroic tone continues throughout the book, part and parcel of the authors' admitted bias against the forces of evil that pursued the war in Vietnam. The good guys and the bad guys are labeled by name on every page. And for clarity's sake, there is no one in between (though a few people, like Robert MacNamara, are able in switch sides...
This partisanship, because it is so blatant and continuous, is acceptable and almost entertaining. "Congress proved to be as obtuse about the nation's ghettos and their attendant problems as it was about the mess in Vietnam," they write (page 120). "Never before in time of war (declared or not) had so many citizens freely stood up to say to their government. "No, Stop!'" (page...
HOWEVER, THE BIAS precludes any serious discussion of the merits of the issues that were so hotly debated in the Vietnam era. It's not altogether clear whether immediate withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam in 1965 would have been the best policy, as the authors glibly assume (page 46), pooh poohing anything short of immediate withdrawal as pandering to the non radical American public...