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...forget that it is 1983 and not 1973 when one sees musty, dusty Henry Kissinger taken out of mothballs and appointed to a position where he could get the U.S. into war. Our experience in Viet Nam was enough...
...since Viet Nam has the U.S. flexed so much muscle abroad...
...striding into a new, tough-guy phase as a world power? In the decade since the U.S. retreated from Viet Nam, Washington's foreign policy has been subject to a sometimes healthy, sometimes paralyzing fear of involvement in far-off military engagements. As a result, says a senior State Department official, "we had come to be seen by the rest of the world as irresolute, lacking consistency and the will to apply power to preserve American interests." Today, Reagan is clearly seeking to free U.S. foreign policy from the inhibiting memory of Viet Nam. But while newly confident...
...press conference last week, the President was asked if he considers it "the American role to play policeman around the world," a role seldom disputed by Americans before Viet Nam. "No," Reagan said, "it is not." But a moment later, with explanatory references to potential cutoffs of sea lanes and of strategic minerals and oil, he did sound something like an international cop. "[The U.S. role] is to recognize that the threats can be widespread, the threats to our security...
Twice in the past four decades we miscalculated, and we had war in Korea and Viet Nam. The worry now is whether Ronald Reagan can perceive the fine line between drama and reality...