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Lessons in Disaster

Mr. President, Can the Ghosts of Vietnam Talk You Down?

Dan Siegel | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lessons in Disaster, Afghanistan, Vietnam War, LBJ Vietnam, Audacity of Hope, President Obama, Ted Sorensen, Daniel Ellsberg, Stanley Karnow, Afghanistan War, George Mcgovern, Politics News
Dan Siegel

Dear Mr. President: It is stunning to me that a humane and discerning mind like yours is being dragged further into an unnecessary and unwinnable war. Please listen to your inner compass.

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"Lessons in Disaster": If Obama Caves to the Pentagon, He's No Jack Kennedy

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

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Robert Naiman

You don't have to be a dove to understand what President Kennedy understood: putting U.S. troops on the ground somewhere doesn't automatically make you more powerful.

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A Vietnam Book That Haunts the US in Afghanistan

Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

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Stephen Schlesinger

Do we have the necessary sobriety, humbleness and wisdom in our current times in Washington to weigh appropriately our next moves on Afghanistan?

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Obama's Astute Choice: General James Jones as National Security Adviser

Gordon Goldstein | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics

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Gordon Goldstein

In selecting General Jones as his national security adviser, Obama has eschewed the model of the foreign policy intellectual and instead placed a true military-affairs expert as his side in the White House.

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