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...help rebuild Western Europe, and idealistically hoped to forge another superpower out of a unification of much of that continent. Soon the State Department's Dean Acheson was pushing the decision to aid Greece and Turkey against Communist subversion as part of the Truman Doctrine. U.S. failure to combat Communism there, he proclaimed, could "open three continents to Soviet penetration?like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe...
Sihanouk sharply criticized the U.S. for supporting Lon Nol's regime. "The United States has valid reasons certainly for defending itself against the propagation of Communism in Asia and most particularly in Southeast Asia," declared Sihanouk. "But it would be pure hypocrisy to assert that the United States is defending the highest interests of the Indochinese people in preventing at all costs regimes like those of Lon Nol and of Nguyen Cao Ky from falling to Communism, using for that purpose bombs and napalm and an apocalyptic destruction of the countries and peoples concerned...
During the '50's, when Nixon was Vice-President, John Foster Dulles liked to explain that he wanted to build up a gigantic bomber fleet that could contain communism simply by devastating any country that liked land reform too much...
What Pusey defended against McCarthyism, then, was not academic freedom but academic independence from the outside world. He wasn't saving that teachers should be allowed to think what they want and to act accordingly: Communism was out of bounds. It was just that the university-not an outsider like McCarthy-should set the limits of their thought...
These strategies reflect two basic dicta of U. S. foreign policy, anti-communism and support for the expansion of capitalist relations. The recommendations of the paper are built upon them. Huntington proposes that the U. S. concentrate on the structure of the political institutions and electoral mechanisms that will be developed: "The U. S. can play a major role in shaping rules of the game through its negotiations with Hanoi and the NLF and through advice...