Word: defeatists
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...have become more a curse than a blessing, may now actually be doing the cause of South Viet Nam's independence more harm than good." The problem, says Worsthorne, is that American troops-once necessary to inspirit the laggard South Vietnamese-have become dangerously demoralized. "Drug-saturated, mutinous, defeatist, incompetent, they constitute more of a threat to the South Vietnamese than do the Viet Cong," he contends...
...prayer. Such, an analysis was naive, but entirely understandable in terms of liberal response to the civil rights movement of the fifties. And, in its blind way, it was hopeful. But Soldier Blue throws the problem of the Indian back into the last century. It is nothing but defeatist. Its only purpose is to assuage liberal guilt...