Collection of Assorted Newspaper and Magazine Clippings: Jfk Assassination, Conspiracy Theories, Etc

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# More Trouble is Coming

It was with landable and honorable intentions that President Ford declared the war at Indochina over for the United States. Responsible statesmanship motivated him to ask his countrymen to be close with the scapegoating, the recriminations over a lost war, and get about the business of restoring this nation's pride to that lofty level which existed before we got sucked into the Indochina tragedy.

Perhaps the President can convince his Republican colleagues to forget he has blamed the Democrat-controlled Congress for pulling the purse strings so tight that the ultimate U.S. abandonment of Indochina was wrapped in humiliation.

Perhaps, with his plea that we "bind the nation's wounds," Ford can stop Democrats and other war critics from arguing that the 1970 Nixon-Kissinger policies of invading Cambodia and supporting the corrupt Lon Nol regime which overthrew Prince Sihanouk made a debacle in Cambodia inevitable.

Perhaps and this is most doubtful the President can persuade Americans to stop asking. "Why didn't we invade North Vietnam?" "Why didn't we bomb the dikes and wipe out Haiphong harbor?" "Why did we persist in fighting a no-win war?" But there is no perhaps when it comes to the business of "restoring U.S. pride."

The truth is that while the war in Southeast Asia ended months ago for the "grunts" — the U.S. ground troops who sloshed through the paddies and jungles — and is now ending for U.S. airmen, military and civilian advisers and perhaps even for the CIA, the war is far from over when it comes to U.S. pride.

Thailand, which stuck with the United States to the point of ultimate peril, now

harm or aid, twofold slowly in the revolutionary war. Only God knows how many thousands of tons of bombs were dropped on North Vietnam by U.S. planes drawn from Thailand. That fact alone is central to current speculation as to whether Hanoi will be satisfied with the conquest of all of Indochina, or whether anger, revenge, ideological real require the fomenting of a successful revolution in Thailand.

When President Ford says that the war is over in Indochina in so far as the U.S. is concerned, is he saying that we also wash our hands of involvement in any future violent upheavals inside Thailand - or South Korea or the Philippines?

Even Americans who never endorsed "the domino theory" must understand that we could hardly restore U.S. pride by ignoring completely assaults against countries that stuck with us through the toughest days of a losing venture.

Yet, no matter what troubles erupt tomorrow or five years from tomorrow in these countries, there would be millions of Americans screaming that Thailand is utterly corrupt, that South Korea has degenerated into a brutal dictatorship and that the Marcos regime in the Philippines qualifies for both descriptions.

This society would find itself in a scaring, divisive dilemma probably more emotional than the agonizing over Indochina. Is such a dilemma in the cards? Detente notwithstanding, I think it is. I just can't believe that the Communists won't move elsewhere to challenge the United States, to attempt to add insult to humiliation.

Believe me, long before we can talk seriously about restoring U.S. pride, we shall have to decide whether and how to respond to any new challenges.