Word: vietnamized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Evans says his book will focus on 1965 to 1977, the turbulent years when he was governor of Washington, overseeing years of Civil Rights strife Vietnam protests and pollution problems...
...favorite conservative myth about the Vietnam war is that the U.S. could have won, had it only possessed the political will to wage a total war against the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army. As Reagan put it in 1965, "We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home for Christmas...
...senator, Fulbright came up with some of the most controversial interpretations of U.S. policies and events, ranging from the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s to the Guatemalan intervention in 1965 to the war in Vietnam. Fulbright's thoughtful policy analyses and objections earned him the animosity of some colleagues in the Senate, as well as some executive officials, but that seems to bother Fulbright little, if at all. He begins his new book The Price of Empire, "If I am remembered, I suppose it will be as a dissenter...
...Decline school of theorists, Fulbright refuses to admit that the United States is doomed to fall from its status as a predominant world power. Instead, he tries to come up with solutions to the problems that complicate U.S. foreign policy. Whether the issue in question is the Middle East, Vietnam or U.S.-Soviet relations, Fulbright sees the dilemma in terms of what can be done about...
...years, the two students said, leftist rebels have demonstrated against President Jose Napoleon Duarte and his Christian Democratic government. But the pair said violence has worsened, blaming part of the cause of U.S. involvement, the largest sustained American military expenditure since Vietnam...