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...convention, however, was its failure to suggest original answers to pressing problems. It did not even address the questions that have surfaced in recent months about the roles of labor and minority groups in society. The creativity that could have been generated from a gathering of former socialists and neo-liberals never materialized...
...group claims that "since the late 1950s, the branches of the social sciences known as 'criminology,' international law and 'deviant studies' have been a thinly veiled cover for the training, recruiting and deploying of international terrorist organizations of both red (communist) and black (neo-fascist) varieties...
...against" the war-a phony question. Nixon was determined to end our involvement, and in fact did so. What he refused to do was to doom to a bloody Communist tyranny millions who had relied upon us. He believed that abject failure would vindicate neo-isolationist trends at home. He was convinced that an America so weakened would dishearten allies and embolden adversaries. And he was proved right. The collapse in 1975 not only led to genocidal horrors in Indochina, but from Angola to Iran to Afghanistan it ushered in a period of American humiliation, an unprecedented Soviet geopolitical offensive...
...anchor of the whole non-Communist world," he said nearly in despair, "and because of righteous indignation this anchor is slithering in the mud." His fear was that in 1976 a new President would see his election as vindication of the antiwar, neo-isolationist position. This must not happen: "My survival depends on it," he said...
...natural tendency to draw cautionary comparisons with Viet Nam has already asserted itself to an unnatural, and certainly unhealthy, extent in the political debate about El Salvador. It has fostered prejudices over judgments and dogmas over lessons, both among conservatives (neo-and otherwise), who are well represented in the Administration, and among their opponents on the left...