Kissinger's betrayal."If we can live with a communist government in China, we ought to be able to accept it in Indochina." Thus spoke Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to Communist Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai Zhou Enlai or Chou En-lai (both: jō ĕn-lī), 1898–1976, Chinese Communist leader. A member of a noted Mandarin family, he was educated in China at an American-supported school and a university in Japan. during 1972 negotiations to end the Vietnam War Vietnam War, conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam. . That brief exchange was disclosed in hundreds of pages of previously classified memoranda released on May 25 by Georgetown University's National Security Archive The National Security Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research and archival institution located within The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.. Founded in 1985 by Scott Armstrong and Thomas Blanton, it archives and publishes declassified U.S. . The comments "appear to lend credence to the 'decent interval' theory posed by some historians who say the United States was prepared to see communists take over Saigon as long as that happened long enough after a U.S. troop departure to save face," commented an AP account. The June 5 Vanity Fair notes that in the same year Kissinger made those perfidious perfidious Albion Napoleon’s epithet for England, “perfide Albion.” [Fr. Hist.: Misc.] See : Treachery comments to Zhou, he told Italian reporter Oriana Fallaci that he agreed the conflict in Vietnam had "been a useless war." This didn't prevent Kissinger, and the oligarchy oligarchy (ŏl`əgärkē) [Gr.,=rule by the few], rule by a few members of a community or group. When referring to governments, the classical definition of oligarchy, as given for example by Aristotle, is of government by a few, usually he represented, from rolling up tens of thousands of American casualties--and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese deaths--by interjecting our country into the Vietnam conflict and then handing the communists the victory. |
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