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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 28, 19^6
Foreign Perspective
Student Harmony
Must Continue
Policy Studied
After one week of classes it appears the housing
arrangement in the north dorm area is working out smoothly.
Yet a minor incident between Corps and civilian fac
tions in that area last night should serve as a reminder
that judicious behavior is required by all students.
A civilian student cut through a staff while the staff
was marching to the evening meal. A member of that
staff admonished the student and bodily removed him from
the formation.
The civilian apparently knew better because his cam-
panion walked around the staff instead of plowing into the
middle of it.
An insignificant action, really, except that from small,
innocuous incidents like these sprout fullscale problems.
Last year in the same area several thousand dollars
of damage was caused by a series of disturbances between
rival Corps and civilian, elements. The spark that ignited
the whole mess was excessive bantering between students
while Corps units were lowering the flag at evening retreat
formations.
Bad feelings led to more trouble, with the eventual
result being an extremely costly flooding of a civilian
dorm and jumbo-sized mob scent.
The Battalion did not favor the mixing of Corps and
civilian students in the north dorm area because we felt
such a setup would only be inviting more trouble.
But now that such a situation has been implemented,
all students must cooperate to insure peaceful, harmonious
relations.
It shouldn’t be such a difficult thing to do. Although
a certain amount of antagonism has existed between the two
student factions, most students should realize that a little
good-natured ribbing never hurt anyone — as long as it re
mains good-natured.
Memories of what happened last spring should be enough
to keep everybody quiet.
By PETE GARZA
Battalion Columnist
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
“I don’t mind a uniform, but it does rob you of your iden
tity! I feel like I look like any other guy in uniform!”
In discussing American foreign,
policy in Viet Nam with the Mex
ican students who participated in
SCONA XI, and with the Chilean
students whom I met this sum
mer, I found a stereotype of the
American government.
In both cases, the students
would argue that the U. S. had no
business whatsoever in Viet Nam,
and when asked why they felt
this way, they would give several
versions of the same argument:
“The U. S. as a rich capitalist
country is interested solely in
advancing its own economic inter
ests; therefore at the outbreak
of any social disturbance in the
small and underdeveloped coun
tries of the world, the U. S. readi
ly steps in to exploit the people.”
I refuted this argument by try
ing to explain our administra
tion’s policy and advocating the
same arguments used by Presi
dent Johnson and Secretary of
State Dean Rusk. But although
I am a staunch advocate of our
Viet Nam policy, at the same
time I could not help but sympa
thize with these students’ posi
tion.
Our country’s history is made
up of countless occasion when we
acted in our own selfish interest.
For example, there is the Mexi-
can-American War; our interven
tion in the Panama-Colombian
conflict of 1903; our intervention
in Guatemala in 1954; the Bay of
Pigs fiasco in 1961, and our lat
est use of the Marines in the
Dominican Republic in 1965. We
have cloaked our real policies, our
real motives with althuistic terms
like “manifest destiny,” “protect
ing American lives and property,”
“protecting the Western Hemi
sphere from outside aggression”
and “carrying the White Man’s
Burden.’
To explain our armed aggres
sion against the Philippines in
1898, President William McKin
ley gave the following version of
“White Man’s Burden:”
“I could not sleep nights try
ing to decide what we should
do. Then one night I got on
my knees and I prayed. And
then I knew what we must do.
We had to go in there and
Christianize, and uplift, and
educate those Filipinos! And
then I went to bed, and went
to sleep and slept soundly.”
And now we are engaged in a
deadly conflict in Viet Nam. It
is a committment from which we
cannot honorably withdraw.
Eventually, though, like all other
conflicts, it, too must come to an
end. And then, after the fighting
and killing has stopped, what will
the United States do ?
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This is a difficult question, and
one which Time Magazine in its
essay “A m e r i c a’s Permanent
Stake in Asia,” tried to answer.
Time said: “Once it has healed
the wounds of Viet Nam, the U.S.
hopes for an Asian future that
will be more and more mastered
by Asians themselves. In Viet
Nam, it has bought time for in
dependent Asians to get on with
the business of nation building;
over the next decade, it will pour
out at least $1 billion a year to
provide economic thrust, includ
ing funds for a vast Mekong
Delta project. Its goal is a com
munity of non-Communist, though
not necessarily aggressively anti-
Communist, Asian nations that
will act as a balance to Red China
and create a pattern of practical
meaningful cooperation.
“Once the war in Viet Nam is
ended, the U. S. sees no reason
why it should not watch and
cheer that community from its
own shores, ready to act to pro
tect its members against aggres
sion, but willing to let Asia select
its own path into the modem
world.”
These contradictory paragraphs
are at the root of the anti-Ameri
can feeling encountered through
out Latin America, Africa, Eu
rope and Asia. On the one hand
we preach self-determination,
and say we are willing to let them
select their own path into the
modern world; but on the other
hand, we pour in millions of dol
lars into the economy, establish
American schools, hospitals and
other public institutions, and set
for our goal an alliance of non-
Communist nations.
Small wonder, then, that anti-
American propaganda calling us
imperialists is so popular among
the oppressed masses of the
world.
With optimists claiming a “vic
tory” in Viet Nam in the near
future, the ground work for our
policy in Asia is now being laid.
As these plans are made, I hope
our administration will examine
its real motives closely and take
a careful look at the effect those
plans will have on world opinion,
which in the modern propaganda
war between Democracy and
Communism, is increasingly be
coming more and more important.
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