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Escalation Quotes
Words on how tension builds and where it leads.
These escalation quotes look at how small frictions build into larger conflicts, drawing on historical reflection and everyday observation alike. Many speakers here write from an American vantage point on decisions that raised the stakes.
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
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When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.
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Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.
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