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Now, everyone knows -- or knew in the week of December 10 -- that something had gone shockingly wrong with American foreign policy.

The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations -- the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved.

Of course the fighting was officially under the auspices of the United Nations.

But in the moment of truth everyone could see that the U.S. was in reality the principal.