Recent U.S. policy toward Indochina

Abstract

From the perspective of the United States, Indochina has oscillated between obsession and oblivion. As a piece in the mosaic of US foreign policy, Indochina has rarely rome into clear focus. At times the American view of it has been obscured by super-imposing a larger frame of reference on the states of Indochina, resulting in a kind of parallax vision in which the relationship of image to reality is never quite clear. At other times, Indochina appears as a distant speck on the horizon, barely visible and not of immediate importance The Carter Administration has vacillated between these two perspectives and, consequently, has been slow in formulating a clear policy toward Indochina.