The withdrawal of support from Ukraine will share the same feeling of regret - that sense that America overcommitted to a war it had no business winning - as the conclusion of the US combat role in south-east Asia, writes Professor Joseph M. Siracusa.
It is inherently significant, because, up to then, it was the biggest disaster in the history of American foreign policy.The Department of Defence estimated that from 1961 until President Thieu collapsed in April 1975, the US spent more than $141 billion in Indo-China – or $7,000 each for South Vietnam’s 20 million souls.From the 1961 death of James Thomas Davis, revealed by Lyndon B.
They have, however, at the time – and since then – offered a myriad of reasons why this was the case. Recognising as legitimate the restraints implicit in unnecessarily drawing in China and the Soviet Union, the United States military, according to Lippmann, found itself with an impossible task:"Thus, our failure in Vietnam sprang from a great mistake. We asked the armed forces to do what it was not possible for them to do."
Alongside the theses of the"great mistake" and"national aberration" was also added the equally significant theme of the unsuitability of exporting democratic institutions and practices to certain foreign soils. “The Vietnam debate has now run its course. The time has come for restraint and compassion. The Administration has made its case. Let all now abide by the verdict of the Congress - without recriminations or vindictiveness.”
It is inherently significant, because, up to then, it was the biggest disaster in the history of American foreign policy.The Department of Defence estimated that from 1961 until President Thieu collapsed in April 1975, the US spent more than $141 billion in Indo-China – or $7,000 each for South Vietnam’s 20 million souls.From the 1961 death of James Thomas Davis, revealed by Lyndon B.
They have, however, at the time – and since then – offered a myriad of reasons why this was the case. Other critiques of Vietnam focused on the character of US involvement, with particular attention paid to the nature of the commitment. Chester L. Cooper, a well-known Asianist and Director of the International Division of the Institute for Defense Analysis, presented this argument in unequivocal language.
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