Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obliged to make sure that it doesn't happen again. If, on the other hand, you believe that your society has merely committed moral schizophrenia, there is no reason for you to do anything at all. It may be a good idea to remove yourself from disturbing influences--to withdraw from Indochina, say--but you are certainly not responsible for what happened to the Indochinese. You are not obliged to make reparations payments, for example. You were temporarily insane. Of course, by putting the emphasis in your discussion of the war on its comparatively minor effects on the United States...
...American government had had any sense, it would have begun to withdraw from Indochina as soon as the domestic opposition began to grow. If President Kennedy had lived, perhaps this would actually have happened. In any case, it's impossible to believe that if Johnson in 1964--let alone Eisenhower in 1958--had known what the war was going to do to the United States, he would have continued to fight, since America had no vital economic or strategic interests in Indo china. But the American government was not sensible, it had become locked into its policy, it believed that...
Americans were there to give the Vietnamese a chance to make American-style democracy work. If the Vietnamese would not or could not do this, the United States could withdraw without losing anything except a few sacred ideals and a few of the war industries that were keeping the economy booming. However unpleasant these losses, they were, to increasing numbers of liberals, insignificant beside the effects of the war-influenced inflation and the loss of self-respect contingent on continuing to bomb and kill and die in defense of a corrupt and totalitarian state...
Many liberals continued to urge a purification of the South Vietnamese government, of course, and a series of coups in Saigon demonstrated the impossibility of such a purification. More and more, therefore, liberals demanded that the United States simply withdraw. Some Americans were even beginning to understand the real alternatives before the Vietnamese people, and to say either that the Vietnamese people themselves would have to decide the question ("How many Vietnamese fought in our Civil War?" William Sloan Coffin demanded), or--the same thing made more explicit--that the NLF represented the vast majority of the Vietnamese people...
Already four junior faculty members have been laid off and more will probably have to be dismissed if the resources which President Nixon has proposed to withdraw are not restored. Hiatt said. More significantly, as few as 75 of the 240 who have decided to come to Harvard next year may actually matriculate. Hiatt said. About 50 per cent of these are foreign students, who are recipients of non-Federal aid from private foundations and the Agency for International Development...