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The Myth of Reprisals
Meyers, William | December 15, 1969 issue

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In the attempt to justify the U.S. intervention in Vietnam, those responsible for the action have created a mythology of catastrophic proportions. Future historians will be appalled by the rewrite of the Geneva Agreements of 1954, particularly the conversion of the 17th Parallel from a line separating two parts of one country into something quite different. To find successive pretexts for continuing the war, Americans have moved from one discredited thesis to the next. If U.S. President Richard M. Nixon were serious about his eagerness for peace, and if he were also serious about his fear of reprisals, he would be talking about the need for reconciliation.

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REPRISALS; VIETNAM War, 1961-1975; RECONCILIATION; NIXON, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; PRESIDENTS -- United States; PEACE; UNITED States
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