tomdispatch.com - 10/12/2009
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Here's the thing: This may be our next "Vietnam moment," but Afghanistan is no Vietnam: there are no major enemy powers like the Soviet Union and China lurking in the background; no organized enemy state with a powerful army like North Vietnam supporting the insurgents; no well organized, ...
nytimes.com - 10/14/2009
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nytimes.com —
Berlin If President Obama can find a way
to balance the precise number of troops that will...
stabilize Afghanistan and Pakistan, without tipping America into a Vietnam there, then he indeed deserves a Nobel Prize for physics. I have no problem with ...
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Not Good Enough
newyorker.com - 10/12/2009
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newyorker.com —
Three years ago, a historian named Lewis Sorley
read a piece of mine on counterinsurgency in the...
Iraqi city of Tal Afar and sent me his book “A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and...
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What Obama and the Generals Are Reading
foreignaffairs.com - 10/11/2009
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foreignaffairs.com —
The summary victory over Iraq was hailed by
no less a figure than President Bush as a...
once-and-for-all elimination of the 'Vietnam syndrome' -- which shows how powerful was the memory of that defeat even 15 years after the fall of Saigon. Addresses ...
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America and Vietnam: The Unending War
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Here's the thing: This may be our next "Vietnam moment," but Afghanistan is no Vietnam: there are no major enemy powers like the Soviet Union and China lurking in the background; no organized enemy state with a powerful army like North Vietnam supporting the insurgents; no well organized, unified national liberation movement like the Vietcong, and that's just a beginning. Almost everywhere, in fact, the Vietnam analogy breaks down—almost everywhere, ...
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