The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests. Therefore, we must hold Indochina.


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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages ...
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If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the k...
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Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a soci...
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Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's ...
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By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Ko...
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The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. I...
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The Occupy movement is - it was a big surprise.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that rel...
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the d...
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If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you...
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There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.
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In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. ...
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflatio...
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For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.
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The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich ...
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The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour.
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In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.
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It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, w...
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In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and kil...
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial e...
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From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies ...
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There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which say...
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Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how tha...
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When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn&#...
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The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg p...
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the O...
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If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers ...
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The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but i...
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The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-ri...
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In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in ...
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When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. ...
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop mea...
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My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew togethe...
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Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and re...
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Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
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Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let...
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