Word: antifreedom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Argument No. 2 concerns American intervention in Viet Nam. Goodwin holds that the U.S. got involved through miscalculations, misjudgments and misreadings of recent history. The nature of the struggle isn't simply freedom versus antifreedom. It is partly a civil war, partly a case of "internal aggression." The "credibility of our military power" is what is at stake. It is not the presence of a Communist government in Saigon but an American military defeat that would shake the non-Communist governments of Asia. The U.S. cannot surrender, he writes, and should not withdraw...