Word: vietnamized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...precisely this self-serving complacency that the authors of To Win a Nuclear War attack. American presidents have, for example, considered using nuclear weapons in Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East. Moreover, Kaku and Axelrod report, Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy seriously looked at detailed plans to initiate a surprise nuclear attack on the Soviet Union...
These and other mistakes lead to "the first defeat in American history," said Karnow, who has authored two books on the Far East and helped produce a television documentary on Vietnam...
Recounting the history of the war, Karnow said that America's support of the 1963 coup against South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dihn Diem "led us inexorably into putting combat troops into Vietnam. It became our war, it became our responsibility...
...Vietnam legacy has had a definitive impact on America's attitude toward foreign intervention, and subsequently on presidential foreign policy, Karnow said...
Karnow cautioned against calling this new crisisanother Vietnam. "There is a tendency in theReagan Administration to think about CentralAmerica in terms of America's confrontation withthe Soviet Union and Cuba which is the samemistake we made in Vietnam," the former Niemanfellow said...