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RE: COUNTERG UNS TTOM WER L, one . OE and DULLIS played considexatle roles in our involvement in Vietnam. 2 Senator MORRIS tends to overlook the fact that the EISENHOWER- = DULLIS policy was grounded fundamentally on the containment polic.es oo that were develeped “uring the TRUMAN administration, I think it a is more or less the same view that is held by other ‘articulate a opponents of American pclicy jn Vietnem and other parts of the a third world. People Like Senator FULLBRIGHT, people like Senator MC CARTHY. 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 etate, not aberration but are one that in theory 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 break from American tradition in the American cold war forejgh policies since the Second World War, is too deeply rooted in the development of American imperialism which began at least as early as the 1890's, The usual explanation for American policy after the Second World War runs something like this. This is the explanation thatis usnatly 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 Wdr with the rise of Soviet power, American foreign policy somehcw became more rea tic. We realized that we were no longer isloated from the rest of the world. We realized that we had to play quote unquote a responsible role to the rest of the world, a responsible role in preserving the free world, and preserving world peace and protecting order and stapility throughout the world. Again I would argue that American foreign policy before the cold war was not isolutionist, but that many of the crises of American policy since the Second World War were developed long 128