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Bill Moyers Plays LBJ Tapes, Draws Similarities With Obama And Afghanistan War

Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pbs, Afghanistan War, Lbj, Lyndon Johnson, Bill Moyers Journal, Vietnam War, Bill Moyers, President Johnson, Barack Obama, Politics News

On Friday night, Bill Moyers played clips from the Lyndon B. Johnson tapes on his PBS television show. Moyers drew correlations between the factors f...

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To End War in Afghanistan, Reinstate Military Draft?

Brent Green | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Military Lottery, Vietnam War, Draft, Theodore Sorensen, Taliban, George Mcgovern, Afghanistan, Karzai, Barack Obama, Diem, Politics News
Brent Green

U.S. invasions of Vietnam and Afghanistan have eerie similarities. Both had ill-defined military goals, especially exit strategies, making them seemingly endless.

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Matthew Hoh, Daniel Ellsberg Discuss Aghanistan, Vietnam Wars (VIDEO)

Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Karzai, Afghanistan, President Obama, Vietnam War, Kabul, Obama, Daniel Ellsberg, Hamid Karzai, Afghan War, Pentagon Papers, White House, Brave New Films, Matthew Hoh, New York Times, Vietnam, US State Department, Politics News

Matthew Hoh and Daniel Ellsberg, recently sat down for a conversation about the war in Afghanistan. Matthew Hoh made headlines late last month when ...

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Holding the Global North Responsible for Climate Change: What Would Lord Russell Do?

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Bertrand Russell, Evo Morales, Climate Change, Vietnam War, Green News
Nikolas Kozloff

To truly be effective, climate change activists will have to gain support from more important geopolitical players in the region such as Brazil. If they fail to do so, critics may dismiss the tribunal as a partisan hatchet job on the United States, just like in Bertrand Russell's day.

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General McChrystal's War

Rick Ayers | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Stanley McChrystal, Pentagon, Afghanistan Surge, Vietnam War, Escalation, Afghan War, World News
Rick Ayers

A Newsweek cover story purporting to demonstrate how the US could have "won" in Vietnam turns out to be a stalking horse for General McChrystal and the Pentagon hawks.

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Veteran Returns To Vietnam To Build Houses, 40 Years Later

Posted 11.14.2009 | Impact

Read More: Vietnam, Mekong River, Vietnam Veteran Returns, Vietnam War, Kevin Roberts, Vietnam Veterans, Impact News

CNN: He is a former Marine who has lived with battleground nightmares for 40 years and now plans a return to the land that haunts him....

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Veteran's Day: Your Stories and Memories

Matthew Palevsky/Zach Dorfman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Marines, US Soldiers, Mental Health, Vietnam War, Veterans Day, Vietnam, Agent Orange, Iraq, Veterans, Politics News

In honor of Veteran's Day, the HuffPost asked readers to send in stories and videos about those who served and how war has impacted your life. You can...

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The Real Red Flag Raised By Fort Hood

David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: US Military, Persian Gulf, War on Terror, Trauma, War in Afghanistan, Timothy McVeigh, Muslim Americans, Afghan War, Violence, Psychology, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Gun Violence, Politics News, Politics, Iraq PTSD, Iraq Veterans, Military, Vietnam War, Nidal Malik Hasan, Muslims, Ptsd, Us Troops Afghanistan, National Institutes of Health, Psychiatry, Depression, Fort Hood, Mental Health, Crime, Terrorism, War, Suicide, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, War in Iraq, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Texas, Army, Anti-Muslim Bias, Muslim, Oklahoma City Bombing, Fort Hood Shootings, Living News
David A. Love

As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.

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The "Goldilocks Principle" and Afghan War Options

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, George Ball, George Kahin, Rand Corporation, Afghanistan Occupation, President Barack Obama, Juan Cole, Lindsey Graham, The Nation, Peter Baker, Afghanistan War, William Polk, American War in Afghanistan, Nato, American Military Forces, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Goldilocks Principle, William Westmoreland, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, New York Times, General Stanley McChrystal, Joe Lieberman, Afghanistan, Lyndon Johnson, Undersecretary of State George Ball, Helene Cooper, Robert Dryfuss, Vietnamization, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

General McChrystal's recommendation for more troops and material has a distinctly Westmorelandian flavor to it. If approved, it could create an additional $40 to$80 billion per annum in war costs.

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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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Homeless For 45 Years, Steve Sacre Now Has A Home

Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 11.05.2009 | Impact

Read More: Homeless, Drug Abuse, Homeless Veterans, Homelessness, Homeless for 45 Years, Vietnam War, Steve Sacre, Impact News

Most Americans can't imagine being homeless for 45 hours, let alone 45 years. Steve Sacre, however, a Vietnam veteran and former drug addict, was just...

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Too Big to Fail?: Why All the President's Afghan Options Are Bad Ones

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

Read More: Gen. Stanley McCrystal, Hank Paulson, John Kerry, Richard Holbrooke, Vietnam War, Afghanistan, General Petraeus, War in Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Hamid Karzai, World News
Tom Engelhardt

Our leaders evidently never saw a war to which the word "more" didn't apply. Hence the Afghan War, where impending disaster is just an invitation to fuel the flames of an already roaring fire.

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A Letter to the President

Ron Kovic | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Disabled, Marines, Afghanistan, Vietnam War, Ron Kovic, US Marines, Vietnam, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Marine Corps, Disabled Veterans, Veterans, Politics News
Ron Kovic

Many of us who served in Vietnam promised ourselves long ago that we would never again allow what happened to us in that war to ever happen again. We have an obligation to protest. To speak out.

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Uncle Sam in Afghanistan: Good Help Is Hard to Find

Norman Solomon | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Pentagon, Escalation, Vietnam War, Obama Administration, Abdullah Abdullah, Politics News
Norman Solomon

Unless the best and brightest who oversee Afghan war policy can rig up a coalition with the top two contestants, a runoff between Karzai and his rival Abdullah Abdullah will happen November 7.

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Getting the Vietnam Analogy Right in Afghanistan

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

Read More: Nazi Germany, President Obama, Lebanon, Iran, Hitler, China, History, Muslim, Saudi Arabia, Nato, Vietnam War, John Kennedy, Chechnya, Munich, Analogies, Czechoslovakia, Syria, Xinjiang, West Germany, South Vietnam, Hamas, Soviet Union, Hizbollah, Afghanistan War, Al Quaeda, Kashmir, Shiites, Iraq War, Communism, North VIetnam, Taliban, India, Lyndon Johnson, Cuba, Ospolitik, Detente, World News
Leon T. Hadar

The ghosts of the Vietnam War seem to be hanging around the White House Situation Room as President Obama and his national security aides debate a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.

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Vietnamistan?

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vietnam War, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Ian Gurvitz

Are we fighting to deny Al Qaeda a base of operations and to keep American safe? This is not a Bond movie. It's not like we can destroy their secret base of operations in time to stop them from bombing the Super Bowl.

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Agent Orange in Vietnam: Ignoring the Crimes Before Our Eyes

Dave Lindorff | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Nobel Prize, Obama, Vietnamese Victims, Agent Orange, Vietnam War, War Crime, War Crimes, War Crimes Vietnam, The New York Times, NY Times, War Crimes Agent Orange, World News
Dave Lindorff

Missing from a recent Times article on American victims of Agent Orange, was a single mention of the far larger number of victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam: the Vietnamese.

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ReThink Interview: Daniel Ellsberg -- the Most Dangerous Man in America Speaks, Part Two

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Battle of Algiers, Nationalism, Henry Kissinger, Afghanistan, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Rethink Reviews, Daniel Ellsberg, Film, Jonathan Kim, Movies, Paul Wolfowitz, Movie Reviews, Insurgency, Whistleblowers, Jonathan Kim Movie Reviews, Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith, Richard Nixon, Occupation, Vietnam War, Documentary, Movie Critic, Counterinsurgency, Pentagon Papers, Machiavelli, Torture, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

The second part of my interview with Daniel Ellsberg, the true American hero who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.

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Obama at the Precipice: Tough Guys Don't Need to Dance in Afghanistan

William J. Astore | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, The Great Society, Lyndon B. Johnson, Afghanistan Escalation, Barack Obama, Vietnam War, Politics News
William J. Astore

By continuing the war in Afghanistan, Obama will likely ensure himself a one-term presidency, and someday be seen as a man like LBJ whose biggest dreams broke upon the shoals of an unwinnable war.

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The Making of a Quagmire

Byron Williams | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Vietnam War, Quagmire, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Byron Williams

A word of caution to the president: The distance between being a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and perilously stuck in a quagmire is a nebulous one. There are no signs posted to inform you when you've arrived at the quagmire.

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Creating Terrorism, Part 2

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vietnam War, David Axelrod, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Sen. Fritz Hollings

The world knows our support of Israel is the cause of terrorism against the United States. But politicians in Washington can't acknowledge this.

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ReThink Interview with Daniel Ellsberg: The Most Dangerous Man in America Speaks (Part One)

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Nationalism, Henry Kissinger, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Rethink Reviews, Daniel Ellsberg, Jonathan Kim, Film, Movies, Movie Reviews, Insurgency, Jonathan Kim Movie Reviews, Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith, Richard Nixon, Occupation, Vietnam War, Documentary, Afghanistan, Movie Critic, Pentagon Papers, Counterinsurgency, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

I was enthralled by The Most Dangerous Man in America, and when I was told that Ellsberg would be in Los Angeles for a week in late September and would be available for an interview, I jumped at the chance.

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Rethink Afghanistan: Filmmaker Robert Greenwald "Took A Lot Of Grief" For Movie On Afghan War Policy

Raw Story | Kathleen Miller | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communism, Vietnam, Mcchyrstal, Vietnam War, Kennedy, Stanley McChrystal, Afghanistan, Obama, Donna Edwards, Terrorism, Robert Greenwald, Troop Levels, Rethink Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Politics News

The left-wing filmmaker behind a documentary that questions U.S. policy in Afghanistan says he "took a lot of grief" and lost progressive donors when ...

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Woodstock Film Fest -- William Kunstler

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 10.06.2009 | New York

Read More: Counterculture, Bill Kunstler, 1960s, Radicalism, William Kunstler, American Indian Movement, Chicago 7, Vietnam War, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, New York News
Stewart Nusbaumer

A sensitive, truthful, insightful film about a lawyer who stood at the center of a confrontational movement as it spearheaded a political assault on injustice in America from Vietnam to the Chicago 7.

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Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of Conservatism (Review)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: The Death of Conservatism, Sam Tanhenhaus, Civil Rights Movement, Joe Mccarthy, Ronald Reagan, Edmund Burke, Willam F. Buckley Jr., Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Sarah Palin, Communism, Martin Luther King, John Birchers, Tom Brokaw, Vietnam War, Benjamin Disraeli, New York Times, African Amercans, Rick Perry, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, Soviet Union, Books News
Joseph A. Palermo

Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.

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