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...similarities between Viet Nam and El Salvador far outweigh the differences. The enormous infusion of money; the support given to a corrupt government that, like its opposition, uses atrocities to accomplish its objectives; American advisers attempting to train a ramshackle, ragtag army; and Washington debates about whether or not American ground troops will be needed to win. It's all much too familiar and, more to the point, irritating to the deep national wounds that have barely stopped oozing...
...failed to mention the most basic parallel between El Salvador and Viet Nam. Once again the U.S., the foreigner, is playing God, picking the good and the bad side and intervening in the internal politics of another country we do not know or understand. The analogy with Viet Nam is not that we might win or lose, but that we, a superpower, can so callously use a poor peasant nation as an unwilling surrogate in our struggle with the U.S.S.R. for the title of toughest country on the globe...
...soldier," was a 21-year-old sergeant when he won a battlefield commission for his heroics on the Anzio beachhead in Italy in 1944. Described by colleagues as "cool," "articulate," "meticulous" and possessing "a fantastic memory," he was executive officer of the 25th Infantry Division Artillery during combat in Viet Nam. "It's good to have a guy in there who has been shot at," said one officer in praise of Vessey's selection. Instead of pouting over the snub from Carter, Vessey has served loyally as Army Vice Chief of Staff to Meyer, his former subordinate. Meyer...
...engaged me in a joshing Socratic dialogue. His observations seemed random but formed a pattern spelling out a series of directives for his subordinates. Both Presidents Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson had died within the previous two months, he noted. With them the old China policy and the old Viet Nam policy had been buried. "At that time, you opposed us. We also opposed you. So we are two enemies," he laughed...
...insistently when we entered office, hailed as a turning point when we carried it out and later blamed for all our contemporary dilemmas. In the retrospective of a decade, detente is being made to bear the burden for the consequences of America's self-destructive domestic convulsions over Viet Nam and Watergate. The former made Americans recoil before foreign involvement and thus opened an opportunity for Soviet expansionism; the latter weakened Executive power to resist Soviet pressure...