Louis Proyect wrote: > Ford and Carter operated under the > constraints of the "Vietnam syndrome". Reagan's presidency was a direct > challenge to the post-Vietnam consensus that military interventions > could backfire.
It is not true that Ford (Republican) accepted the constraints of the Vietnam syndrome. In fact, prompted by Kissinger (Republican), Ford attacked Angola in 1975 using the CIA and mercenaries, in a failed attempt to impose a puppet (UNITAS) regime. But, why did Carter not challenge the Vietnam syndrome, while Reagan did? Perhaps that has something to do with the different social forces that find *political* expression in the two parties. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
