Quoted in Hue, 1968, on page 502:
"Emmet John Hughes, a former speechwriter for President Eisenhower who was then working with Republican presidential hopeful Nelson Rockefeller, wrote in Newsweek that it had been a mistake to consider the struggle in Vietnam as part of global Communist expansionism:
'The fateful basis... has been a false analogy - the dogged insistence that the war in Vietnam signaled precisely the same political commitment as all U.S. actions since WWII... deterring communist aggression. On the contrary, the intervention in Vietnam has been unique and unprecedented... No previous conflict cast America in the role of an effective heir to hated colonial authority, alienating rather than arousing national pride. And no previous conflict engaged America in the audacious labor of creating a new sovereignty... A policy disdainful of such historical differences could have but one end. You cannot truly win a conflict that you cannot truthfully define.'"
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