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Obama's Meaningless War

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Vietnam, Taliban, Lyndon Johnson, Afghanistan, Osama Bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Communism, Obama War in Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Politics News

Meaningless is the right term for the Afghanistan war, because our bloody attempt to conquer this foreign land has nothing to do with its stated purpose of enhancing our national security.

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It's Time for Barack Obama to Take a Lesson From Lyndon Johnson

Josh Rosenblatt | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dad, Lyndon Johnson, Democrats, Health Care, Barack Obama, Birthers, Health Care Debate, LBJ Toughness, Barney Frank, Democrats Health Care, Disappointment in the Democrats, Obamacare, Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, Democrats Health Care Fight, Politics News

Even with right and reason on their side; even with a filibuster-proof majority on their side, the Democrats have again found a way to lay down and cower.

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What's So "Public" About the Public Option?

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medicare, Lyndon Johnson, Public Option, Town Hall Meetings, Health Care, Harry Truman, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

The shifting definition of "public option" is not accidental, but is emerging from the perception by Democrats in the House that the August recess caused them great damage.

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Remembering Ted Kennedy

Murray Fromson | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Moscow, Bangkok, Lyndon Johnson, CBS News, Ted Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Russia, Lbj, Chicago, Cold War, Politics News

None of my colleagues covering Ted Kennedy's early emergence on the national horizon in the 1960s bet on him as a promising young star.

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Just One More Example of Edward Kennedy's Service to His Country

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, Senator Edward Kennedy, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Kennedy, South Vietnam, President Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Nguyen Van Thieu, President Johnson, Subcommittee on Refugees and Escapees, Robert F. Kennedy, Arvn, Thieu, Politics News

Kennedy's role in ending the Vietnam War should be honored and remembered as a unique contribution he made to serving his country in a very difficult and polarized time.

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Command Decision

Tony Blankley | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: Lyndon Johnson, Afghanistan, Obama Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, World News

Obama owes it to both himself and the many service members who soon may be shipping out to make a new, cold calculation of whether he believes that he can succeed in Afghanistan.

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The Afghanistan Gap: Press vs. Public

Norman Solomon | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: Al Qaeda, Escalation, Vietnam War, New York Times, Iraq, Afghanistan, Washington Post, News Media, Lyndon Johnson, Frank Rich, Barack Obama, World News

Increasingly, public opinion is not cooperating. While the media establishment and the political establishment appear to belong to the same pro-war affinity group, the public is shifting to the other side of a widening credibility gap.

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Why Barack Can't Do What Lyndon Would Have: An Essay on Living in the Past

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Pierre Du Pont, Henry Ford, Lobbyists, Roger Mud, Health Care Reform, Lew Wasserman, Medicare, Lyndon Johnson, Dan Rather, Robert Ball, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Bob Kerr, Barack Obama, John Stennis, David Rockefeller, Politics News

There's been a major power shift in the United States over the past forty years. Power has devolved from the Russells, Kerrs and Johnsons to the lobbyists.

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Applying Historical Lessons to Health Care Reform

Bill Cunningham | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Neustadt, Bob Dole, Pat Moynihan, Robert Caro, President Obama, 1964 Civil Rights Bill, James Carville, Analogies, Tom Johnson, Clinton Health Reform, Hubert Humphrey, Politics News

In the health care fight, perhaps Rahm Emmanuel and Company might have benefited from looking at President Lyndon Baines Johnson's approach to the various Civil Rights bills that passed on his watch.

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LBJ Created Canada's Superior Health Care System

Diane Francis | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Oecd, World Health Organization, Health, Health Care Reform, Canada, Universal Health Care, Republicans, Lyndon Johnson, Health Care, Barack Obama, Business News

Now that the Americans appear to have blown another chance to fix their health care system, it's time for Canadian physicians and others to ratchet up the industry offering selective services to Americans.

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40 Years After Woodstock: An Extraordinarily Different America

Brent Green | Posted 09.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Vietnam War Protests, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, Sharon Tate, Charles Manson, Woodstock 40th Anniversary, Woodstock, Lyndon Johnson, Harvard, Lsd, Entertainment News

Woodstock means little until you place it in larger context of a society unraveling around the newest generation of young adults, a dominant and dominating cohort of malcontents.

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: a Somber History Lesson

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Gulf of Tonkin, Lyndon Johnson, Stanley Karnow, Vietnam War, Politics News

The 45th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution should serve as a sobering reminder of the costly war that America was dragged into based on lies and shadowy misinformation.

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Why Can't Obama Be More Like LBJ?

Stanton Peele | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Stanton Peele, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Coke Stevenson, Dwight Eisnhower, Vietnam War, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Cronkite, Robert Caro, Politics News

We are unlikely to ever again see the likes of LBJ -- or of the huge changes he crafted in our society -- and we are just now starting to understand what we have lost.

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They Opposed Medicare Too

Rep. Rush Holt | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Lyndon Johnson, Medicare, Health Care, Harry Truman, Politics News

Although Medicare now is widely seen as a successful program for helping Americans access health care, it was very controversial when it was passed. The same arguments against health care reform today were made then.

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Honduras: Term Limits When Governments Benefit People

Nelson P. Valdes | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

Read More: Dominican Republic, Chile, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Henry Kissinger, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Manuel Zelaya, Jean Bertrand Aristide, Military Fascism, Us-Policy-in-Latin-America, Manuel Zelaya Honduras, Post-Cold-War, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Chavism, Coup D'etat, Secretary Clinton, Anti-Castroites Miami, United Nations Development Programme, Cia, Oscar Arias, Richard Nixon, US Embassy, State-Department-Human-Rights-Report, Guatemala, Lyndon Johnson, Salvador-Allende, Undp, World News

Congress and Courts belong to the rich and powerful who also control the military in cooperation with the Pentagon. Washington provided aid.

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Beer Metaphor Becomes Frosty-Cold Reality

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, General Grant, Have a Beer With, Policeman, President Obama, Racial Relations, Stupidly, Teachable Moment, Winston Churchill, Andrew Jackson, Obama, Civil War, Race, Sarah Palin, Bush, Abe Lincoln, Log Cabin, Professor, Grant, Teaching Moment, Harvard, Republican Cloth Coat, Clinton, Abraham Lincoln, Honest Abe, Cop, Acting Stupidly, Dubya, Lincoln, Bill Clinton, George HW Bush, Whiskey, Man of the People, WC Fields, Beer, Cormac O'Brien, Massachusetts, Stupid, Bubba, Ulysses S Grant, Have a Beer, Barack Obama, Jackson, Attitude, Chris Weigant, Secret Lives of the US Presidents, George W Bush, Hillary Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Arrest, Churchill, Politics News

Barack Obama is the first president to not just accept the premise of the "having a beer" test, but to embrace it and turn it into reality.

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Cronkite and Vietnam: Beyond the Hype

Norman Solomon | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media

Read More: CBS News, War Made Easy, Lyndon Johnson, War Coverage, Journalism, Obit Omit, Vietnam War, Walter Cronkite, Media News

Despite the posthumous praise for Cronkite's February 1968 telecast that dubbed the war "a stalemate," the facts show that the broadcast came only after Cronkite's protracted support for the war.

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Walter Cronkite and the Player Piano

Karen Ocamb | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Richard Nixon, Vietnam, Morton Dean, Ellen Degeneres, Walter Cronkite, Karen Ocamb, Roger Mudd, Watergate, Bob Schieffer, Lyndon Johnson, Dan Rather, Charles Kuralt, Bill Moyers, Media News

Cronkite was so important because he was about the only person in this intensely divided America that both sides could trust. He was our no-frills common bond.

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Remembering History, Powell, and McNamara

Stanley Kutler | Posted 08.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Iraq War, Lyndon Johnson, Colin Powell, Roberrt McNamara, Vietnam War, Richard Cheney, George W. Bush, Politics News

Colin Powell and Robert McNamara exemplify the ever-loyal, unquestioning subordinate. McNamara self-righteously invoked Dean Acheson's quiet departure from the New Deal as his model, but Acheson's silence did not assure him a place at the World Bank. If McNamara had denounced the war, would it have made a difference? What if the very popular Colin Powell had expended some of his political capital and denounced the dubious rationalization for war against Iraq? Perhaps their dramatic gestures would have been wasted. But Archibald Cox's forceful stand against Nixon in October 1973 is instructive, showing that public resistance to a superior can make a difference.

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Escalation Scam: Troops in Afghanistan

Norman Solomon | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Vietnam War, Escalation, Martin Luther King Jr., Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, Special National Security Estimate, Afghanistan, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Politics News

The president has set a limit on the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. For now. That's how escalation works. Ceilings become floors. Gradually.

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McNamara's Evil Lives On

Robert Scheer | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vietnam War, Robert Scheer, Cambodia, Robert McNamara, Lyndon Johnson, Holocaust, Richard Nixon, Iraq War, Politics News

Whatever his better nature, it was the stark evil he perpetrated as secretary of defense that must indelibly frame our memory of him.

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Robert McNamara and America's Tragic Memory Loss

Will Bunch | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, 1960s, Michael Jackson Death, Vietnam War, Iraq War, Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, Iraq and Vietnam, Shock and Awe, Politics News

Even after McNamara spelled out everything that went so horribly wrong in Vietnam, he lived long enough to see a new generation of the self-appointed "best and brightest" in Washington pay absolutely no mind to the lessons of our recent past.

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