commentarymagazine.com - 1/28/2009
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In the summer of 1966 on Martha's Vineyard, where the mail was rendered sticky and soft by the damp salt air, as if permeated by a melting island unreality, I received a questionnaire from some British editors asking in the manner of a book compiled, thirty years before, of opinions oh the ...
newsweek.com - 2/1/2009
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newsweek.com —
About a year ago, Charlie Rose, the nighttime
talk-show host, was interviewing Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, the...
military adviser at the White House coordinating efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq. "We have never been beaten tactically in a fire fight in ...
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Could Afghanistan Be Obama's Vietnam? | Newsweek ...
salon.com - 1/26/2009
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salon.com —
Friday's airstrikes are evidence Obama will take the
hard line he promised in Pakistan and Afghanistan. But...
he should remember what happened to another president who inherited a war.
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Obama's Vietnam?
google.com - 2/3/2009
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google.com —
12 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) The top U.S.
military officer cautioned Monday against comparing the Pentagon's renewed...
focus on Afghanistan to the Vietnam War, citing terrorism and a non-occupation strategy as "dramatic differences" between the two ...
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The Associated Press: Mullen: Afghanistan is no Vietnam
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Updike Redux: The Mourning After
Opinionator —
... Updike’s account of Ted Wiliams last game, at Fenway Park in 1960, which originally appeared in the New Yorker. Commentary points to his essay On Not Being a Dove , from its March 1989 issue. The New Yorker points to his last short story for the magazine, ...
Updike and the literary lights on war and peace
neo-neocon —
... My, the times they have a-changed. On reading the essay now, newly republished in Commentary, I find sentence after sentence to be not only extraordinarily insightful about what was going on back then, but remarkably relevant to what this country has just been through regarding Iraq. Not only that, but Updike’s description of his discomfiture in attempting to explain his more conservative stance on Vietnam to his liberal literati friends contains echoes of my own experiences with political discussions in the last few years. ...
Updike on war and the intelligentsia
neo-neocon —
... My, the times they have a-changed. On reading the essay now, newly republished in Commentary, I find sentence after sentence to be not only extraordinarily insightful about what was going on back then, but remarkably relevant to what this country has just been through regarding Iraq. Not only that, but Updike’s description of his discomfiture in attempting to explain his more conservative stance on Vietnam to his liberal literati friends contains echoes of my own experiences with political discussions in the last few years. ...
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