Iraq and Vietnam

White House And Iraq Agree On "Principles" For Permanent US Presence

TPM Muckraker | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 11.26.2007 | Home

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So it begins. After years of obfuscation and denial on the length of the U.S.'s stay in Iraq, the White House and the Maliki government have released ...

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All Soldiers Fade Away

Justin Hudnall | Posted 11.11.2007 | Home

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Justin Hudnall

Most everyone knows the pivotal quote from General Douglas MacArthur's farewell address, "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away." The note he ch...

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Vietnam Redux; When Will We Ever Learn?

Mort Rosenblum | Posted 10.22.2007 | Home

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Mort Rosenblum

You cannot reorder at gunpoint a society that has spent millennia fending off saviors with a shopping list.

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Iraq and Vietnam: A Simple Equation

Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 09.11.2007 | Home

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Stephen Schlesinger

Absent the surge extras, we are back where we started and another year will have passed, more lives lost, more Iraqis displaced, more mayhem in the streets, more waste of US assets.

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