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RE: COUNTERCE ONTO Wer SN ee et te ne and DULLIS played considezable roles in our involvement in Vietnam. Senator MORRIS tends to overlook the fact that the EISENHOWER- DULLIS policy was grounded fundamentally on the containment polic.es that were develcped ‘uring the TRUMAN administration. I think it is more or less the same view that is held by other ‘articulate opponents of American pelicy jn Vietnem and other parts of the third world. People like Serator FULLBRIGHT, people like Senator MC CARTHY. ie I would argue on the other hand, that American policy in Vietnam, American policy in Latin America, American policy in the third world in general is not state, not aberration but are one that in theery and practice of American foreigh policy since the Second World War. In addition, American policy since the Second World War, I weuld further argue, does not represent a considerable Freak from American tradition in the American cold war forejah policies since the Second World War, is too deeply rooted in the development of American imperialism which a began at least as early as the 1890's, Sg na MMMM RIEU Dated oy co wr ‘ . eee The usual explanation for American policy after the Second World War runs something like this. This is the explanation thatis usuatly given by the so-called realist schocl of American foreig . policy experts. They'll say that before the Second World War the United States lived in a kind of naive isolation. It was preserved and protected from the rest of the world by vast oceans on either side of it. It was uninvolved in European affairs and world affairs, that essenti-lly the United States was an innocent, that it believed itself somehow shielded and protected from the rest of the world. They go on to argue that the Second World War with the rise of Soviet power, American foreign policy somehcw became more realistic. We realized that we were no longer isloated from the rest of tle world. We realized that we had to play quote unquote a responsible role to the rest of the world, a responsible role in preserviny the Free world, and preserving world peace and protecting order and stinility throughout the world, Again I would argue that American foreign policy before the cold war was not isolationist, but that many of the crises of American policy since the Second Wor].d War were developed long 128 Een pene ae - 7 mi my a a, sperm aral—aggeliteedee: ‘eemate Rent yt