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100days.blogs.nytimes.com - 3/13/2009

How Not to End Another President's War (L.B.J. Edition)

— 100days.blogs.nytimes.com — Lyndon Johnson tried to give his nation guns and butter. In the end, he provided neither.... (more) How Not to End Another President's War (L.B.J. Edition)

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theatlantic.com - 3/23/2009

The Petraeus Doctrine - The Atlantic (October 2008)

— theatlantic.com — N agl’s line of argument has not gone unchallenged. Its opponents, the Conservatives, reject the revisionist interpretation... of Vietnam and dispute the freshly enshrined conventional narrative on Iraq. Above all, they question whether Iraq represents a ... (more) The Petraeus Doctrine - The Atlantic (October 2008)

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mudvillegazette.com - 3/23/2009

Consecrated Ground

— mudvillegazette.com — Joe Galloway, on ceremonies at the parade ground at the new National Infantry Museum at Ft Benning,... Ga : Douglas Hamilton, a fifth-generation descendant of Alexander Hamilton, sprinkled soil gathered from the decisive battlefield of Yorktown in the Revolutionary War. Former Sen. Dirk ... (more) Consecrated Ground

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Cry Havoc and let slip the rimshots of war!
Firedoglake — ... Only a fool -- or possibly a Frenchman -- could conclude otherwise. Any other punchlines about Iraq, Dick? In a post-Sept. 11 world, I thought the prudent use of violence could be therapeutic. ...

Cry Havoc and let slip the rimshots of war!
Rising Hegemon — ... and Stewart has served up a cliche: the media. As with the war in Iraq, for which credulous media should take some responsibility, the sins are blown out of proportion. And Cohen's sins -- especially -- are blown out of proportion, for example, invading Iraq, not because of evidence, but because Colin Powell said so: Only a fool -- or possibly a Frenchman -- could conclude otherwise. Any other punchlines about Iraq, Dick? In a post-Sept. 11 world, I thought the ...

Monsters
Eschaton — In 2006, Richard Cohen explained why he thought the Iraq war was a good idea: On the contrary, I thought. We are a good country, attempting to do a good thing. In a post-Sept. 11 world, I thought the prudent use of violence could be therapeutic. And Tom Friedman explained it in 2003: What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, um and basically saying, "Which part of this sentence don't you understand?" You don't think, you know, we care about our open society, you think ...

Washington Post Fires Froomkin!
Wonkette » top — ... Think about this one example, of many: wretched columnist Richard Cohen, whom the Post passes off as one of its tenured liberal critics, was embarrassingly wrong about every possible aspect of the Iraq War — as was the entire Liberal editorial board — and when asked in 2006 to reflect on his hawkishness during the first Bush term, he wrote, “In a post-Sept. 11 world, I thought the prudent use of violence could be therapeutic.” This pathetic, grumpy person who was sneeringly wrong about very important War issues and then explained it all away, years ...