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...What Caribbean nation did President Johnson save from Communism...
...little bloodshed and they have not used at all the Americans' most brutal tool of war--mass bombings of civilian and military areas in the cities and countryside. The thousands of refugees now streaming through Vietnam, seem to be fleeing quite understandably from was--not from the idea of communism. And for all the refugees, there are also thousands of South Vietnamese peasants who have been and will continue to be friendly to the NLF, the army of South Vietnam, which has been abandoning, looting and even killing and raping civilians seems to be creating much of the atmosphere...
...American government should in thinking about ways to help Vietnam discard the idea that what is happening there now is a tragedy or that the people of Vietnam need protection from communism. Mass evacuations of orphans--who would probably be cared for by the NLF better than they are by the publicity conscious government and of civilians who the NLF appears to have no intention of harming are not the answer. The United States has brought have and destruction to Vietnam and it owes the nation a tremendous debt--and-the best way to repay that debt is to accept...
...rejected that idea--its most obvious application last week was to the Saigon troops who deserted, fled, or went over to the NLF--but this did not prevent them from seizing triumphantly on the phrase. Nevertheless, no reporter in Indochina attributed the mass flight to the simple fear of Communism the politicians cited. Instead, reporters spoke of a combination of factors--fear of renewed American bombing, fear of NLF "reprisals," fear of looters from the Saigon army, and a vague but pervasive terror that swept whole villages, feeding on rumors as if increase of appetite had grown by what...
...colorful officer, he rose through the ranks between wars to lead the 3rd Infantry Division against Nazi Germany, capturing Nurnberg on Hitler's birthday in 1945 and liberating Hermann Goring's outsized trousers ("That's a lot of pants," O'Daniel crowed). His militant anti-Communism was honed by a postwar tour as military attache in Moscow and service in Korea, where he adopted the motto "Sharpen Your Bayonet." In 1954, he was asked by President Eisenhower to train the South Vietnamese army. Iron Mike became a forceful advocate of the U.S. commitment to Viet...