maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com - 6/30/2009
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President Obama has received much, well deserved, criticism in the US and Europe for meekly abandoning the anti-regime protestors in Iran. We’re still not sure how well the new Iraqi army will do, although performance is promising, as was ARVN's before we cut off its armament supplies. ...
washingtonpost.com - 7/6/2009
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Robert McNamara, Architect of Vietnam War, Dies at 93
tnr.com - 7/6/2009
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Has any single American of this century done
more harm than Robert McNamara? No one comes readily...
to mind. Yes, Lyndon Johnson bears greater responsibility for the damage done the nation by the Vietnam War. But McNamara is a Renaissance man. Before he ...
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Who's Sorry Now
nytimes.com - 7/7/2009
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Robert McNamara, Lyndon Johnson’s icy-veined, cold-visaged and rigidly
intellectual point man for a war that sent thousands...
upon thousands of people (most of them young) to their utterly pointless deaths, has died at the ripe old age of 93. Long after ...
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Reflections on the ARVN
Neptunus Lex —
... Might be useful as American combat soldiers fall back to rural encampments in Iraq and take on a support and training role. ...
ARVN Nights, IA Days
Jules Crittenden —
... As American forces pull back from Iraqi cities, under a neogotiated political deal that will test the new Iraqi Army, Maggie’s Farm glances back for an understanding of current events, looking at the much-maligned and ultimately abandoned Army of the Republic of Vietnam, as an example of what should not be allowed to happen in Iraq: After Tet, a lot more South Vietnamese came off the fence and decided that they really didn’t want the North to come down and take them over, enlistments in the Army went way up, training got a lot better, and the general quality of the South’s ...
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washingtontimes.com 6/26/2009 — Originally published 04:45 a.m., June 26, 2009, updated 09:33 p.m., June 25, 2009 Vietnam's "hidden" war on Christianity just rumbles along, and on March 13, the communist authorities demolished one of the first Christian churches built in Vietnam's ...
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mudvillegazette.com 3/31/2009 — I'm a day late in getting this up but it is their day. Please take time to Welcome them Home.
On Monday, be sure to offer a handshake and a thank you to a Vietnam vet.
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Tomgram: William Astore, Apocalypse Then, Afghanistan Now
tomdispatch.com 10/12/2009 —
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 ...
Will Bunch: Robert McNamara and America's Tragic Memory Loss
huffingtonpost.com 7/12/2009 — Robert McNamara died today at age 93 . As Secretary of Defense for Presidents John F. Kennedy and more notably Lyndon Johnson in the mid-1960s, it was McNamara who oversaw America's tragic military buildup in Vietnam. That made McNamara -- right up ...
Inventing Vietnam - Cambridge University Press
cambridge.org 2/19/2009 — This book considers the Vietnam war in light of U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam, concluding that the war was a direct result of failed state-building efforts. This U.S. nation building project began in the mid-1950s with the ambitious goal of creating ...
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