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| 7 Oct 2009 by Peter Beinart Exactly eight years after Bush sent troops to Afghanistan, critics are once again calling it Obama's Vietnam. In his debut column, The Daily Beast's senior political writer Peter Beinart on why there's no real comparison. The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories - http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/?cid=rss:bs - References |
| 21 Oct 2009 by Leon T. Hadar But the historical analogies of Vietnam could become confusing if not misleading when one shifts the focus from the decision making processes to ideological premises of US involvement the Cold War. In fact, Obama and his advisors should ... Barack Obama on The Huffington Post - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/big-news/ - References |
| 21 Oct 2009 by Leon Hadar Getting the Vietnam Analogy Right in Afghanistan. By Leon Hadar. The ghosts of the Vietnam War seem to be hanging around the White House Situation Room as President Barack Obama and his national security aides are debating a new strategy for the war ... In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the period leading to the war in Afghanistan and the U.S. invasion of Iraq, it seemed for a while as though President George W. Bush and his neoconservative advisors would be successful in ... RealClearWorld - Articles - http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/ |
| 20 hours ago by BlueOregon.com I read it when Bush II and Cheney were rigging the war on Iraq. There was so much in common with the wars in the book it was possible to just change the names and the dates and they could have been interchangeable. .... My point is that we have been stuck on Vietnam as the Afghanistan analogy - and God knows there's something to that. But what hit me watching the WW2 stuff was the lessons of Iwo Jima. It's tiny - 8 square miles and the name means "Sulfur Island. ... BlueOregon - http://www.blueoregon.com/ - References |
| 24 Nov 2009 by Iain Murray As a Vietnam vet I think the analogy is wrong. I think the Pentagon papers is appropriate. Nov 24, 2009 - 1:58 am 4. XiaoMei: Iain, from one of your cites: “All our FOI officers have been in discussions and are now using the same exceptions not to respond – advice they got ..... It proves nothing, especially when stacked up against the amount of embarrassing revelations about the Bush administration's suppression of the EPA's report that global warming was a real threat: ... Pajamas Media - http://pajamasmedia.com/ - References |
| 13 Nov 2009 by Bernd Debusmann The answers to that question differ widely and the Vietnam analogy has come up routinely whenever the United States resorted to military action in the past three decades, from Lebanon and Somalia to Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq. ... The Great Debate - http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/ |
| 7 hours ago I'm curious how a Pulitzer-Prize winning historian who has written a fantastic book on Lincoln's political genius would make such a poor analogy -- not merely because of the incongruity of the conflicts, but because it's a tragic example of .... As to Obama's dithering, he simply wants to avoid another VIetnam in which we lost 58000 military dead for no good reason. The same North Vietnam regime that we tried to annihilate is still in power and is now our "most favored ... Beltway Confidential - http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/ - References |
| 17 Sep 2009 by Sisyphus One of the reasons the Project for a New American Century and the Bush administration failed in their attempt to reinvent 19th-century empire in the 21st century is that peoples of the global south are now politically and socially mobilized en ... Rubin also took up cudgels against the Vietnam analogy. He said that in Vietnam the whole world was against the US, whereas in Afghanistan this is not the case. But the extremely wealthy Oil Gulf is against the US-- at least its ... Sisyphus - http://hoosierinva.blogspot.com/ - References |
| 30 Aug 2007 by The Heritage Foundation - Helle Dale The world of bloggers and opinion writers is agog over President Bush's use of the Vietnam analogy in his speech last week to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. After years of resisting the comparison with Vietnam, Mr. Bush has now reached ... The Heritage Foundation Papers: Commentary - http://www.heritage.org/ |
| 1 Nov 2009 by Jules Crittenden Which is the one part of the Vietnam analogy that rings true, the part about losing the war at home. (FT gets points for highlighting the uselessness of John Kerry, the diplomatic hero of Kabul, who mounts a fence once he gets back home ... Jules Crittenden - http://www.julescrittenden.com/ - References |
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