All Quiet on the Eastern Front: What Happened?

America has become “a simpering, defeatist, isolationist nation. The damage done to America by the Vietnam debacle is inestimable. It is going to work a spell on America for 25 years. America is going into a national eclipse, and it is going that way willingly. It is bad enough for me personally to leave a place where I had planned to build a life. I don’t expect anyone to give a damn about that. But America has lost its honor, and no one cares about that either.” So spoke Peter Glick, a 35year-old American businessman who lived and worked in Saigon for nine years before being evacuated.

The Canberra Times editorialized on April 6: “It seems unfortunately true that the prestige of the U.S. as an ally will suffer. . . . Thailand now apparently deems it unwise to continue its links with the U.S. . . . tremors will reverberate through South Korea, Taiwan, and perhaps also the Philippines and Indonesia. Should Australia also begin to re-examine its position with the U.S. alliance?”

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America has become “a simpering, defeatist, isolationist nation. The damage done to America by the Vietnam debacle is inestimable. It is going to work a spell on America for 25 years. America is going into a national eclipse, and it is going that way willingly. It is bad enough for me personally to leave a place where I had planned to build a life. I don’t expect anyone to give a damn about that. But America has lost its honor, and no one cares about that either.” So spoke Peter Glick, a 35year-old American businessman who lived and worked in Saigon for nine years before being evacuated.

The Canberra Times editorialized on April 6: “It seems unfortunately true that the prestige of the U.S. as an ally will suffer. . . . Thailand now apparently deems it unwise to continue its links with the U.S. . . . tremors will reverberate through South Korea, Taiwan, and perhaps also the Philippines and Indonesia. Should Australia also begin to re-examine its position with the U.S. alliance?”