Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...logic runs something like this: Back in the mid-sixties young American men were being drafted, Why? Because we were at war in Vietnam. Why? To protect our empire. Why? Because the multinationals need an empire. That sounds like imperialism, doesn't it? Sure does. Well, that's not fair for the people in those countries we're feeding off, is it? If you think that's unfair, you should check out the domestic economy. Look, Watergate, unemployment, regressive taxes, poverty-amidst-plenty, you don't think these things are accidents...
...Communist Vietnam is probably the least dismal of the bleak alternatives that have faced the Vietnamese people. But in its editorial "A Free Vietnam" The Crimson makes use of a ludicrously biased view of Communism to display an utterly unwarranted enthusiasm for a Communist takeover...
...they appear in pictures in American history books, with their long powdered wigs and tight-fitting puritanical breeches. Our image of Thomas Jefferson, with his dreams of a nation of enlightened yeomen, is sullied by the picture of Lyndon Johnson sending B-52s to bomb the peasants of North Vietnam. The thought of Samuel Adams, fervently orating on the imperative of American independence, becomes confounded with the image of American leaders like Dwight Eisenhower sending troops to Korea...
...testimony to the limited success of an antiwar movement that had increasingly insisted that American activities in Indochina called in question the whole political scaffolding on which they rested. And it was still more telling that the most important political figure still obviously concerned with what happened in Vietnam--as opposed to what happened in the United States--was President Ford, visibly moved by the influx of Vietnamese orphans and bewailing his lack of legal authority to continue bombing their country...
Dean Rusk, convinced that his and his colleagues' attitudes towards Indochina had been essentially correct all along, lamented this month humanitarian attitudes toward Vietnam in a series of lectures on the difficulties of foreign policy...