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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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Obama Will Also Lose the Afghani Olympics

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Obama, Chicago, Ioc, Vietnam War, Olympics, Foreign Affairs, No Games Chicago, Cuba, World News
Harvey Wasserman

Team Obama needs -- as the International Olympics Committee has just done -- to be continually reminded that the rest of the world is not an American kick ball.

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Obama Should Adopt the "Public Option" in Afghanistan

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, The Surge, Foreign Policy Elites, President Barack Obama, Democrats, Bush, Afghanistan War, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Conservatives, President George W, Vietnam War, Tim Geithner, Walter Lippmann, Stanley McChrystal, Neoconservatives, Hillary Clinton, Washington Post, Republicans, Politics News
Leon T. Hadar

Will Obama disappoint the foreign policy elites or will he, like Bush, send a "Drop Dead" message to the American people?

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Obama and the Irony of Afghanistan

Stanley Kutler | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vietnam War, Gen. Petreaus, Gen. McChrystal, Afghanistan War, President Obama, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Politics News
Stanley Kutler

The bells of Afghanistan echo the Vietnam War. Like then, we have a powerful military establishment clamoring for an expansive military adventure to protect us from an onrushing enemy.

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A Vietnam Book That Haunts the US in Afghanistan

Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

Read More: McGeorge Bundy, Lessons in Disaster, Afghanistan, War Wire, Foreign Affairs, Vietnam War, Vietnam, Afghanistan War, Advocacy, World News
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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Mindless Stars and the Glamour of the Gun

Tom Gregory | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Lindsay Lohan, Mlk, Rfk, Fergie, Uzi, Kent State, Sarai Givati, Khloe Kardashian, Gun Violence, Gang Warfare, Hayden Panettiere, Future Heretics, Columbine, Gerald Ford, Vietnam War, Gun Control, Walter Cronkite, Charles Manson, Jfk, Bullets, Guns, Entertainment News
Tom Gregory

Across the pages of leading fashion magazines mindless stars with thin careers are being showcased wearing Future Heretics t-shirts glamorizing guns.

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The Ghosts of Vietnam Haunt Washington

Eric Margolis | Posted 09.23.2009 | World

Read More: Stlaney McChrystal, Military, War in Vietnam, Moscow, Osama Bin Laden, Vietnam War, Mullah Omar, Taliban, Congress, Mike Mullen, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Tet Offensive, World News
Eric Margolis

The American general Stanley McChrystal's news that America risks losing Afghanistan is a bombshell. Washington has spent some $250 billion there since 2001.

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Asia Society's Prez on Global Citizens Like Obama

Jim Luce | Posted 09.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Upper East Side, Facebook, Performances, That, Shanghai, Afs, Pakistan, Jaffna, Hong Kong, Asian Art, Vishakha Desai, John D. Rockefeller, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Muslim, Andy Warhol Foundation, Indonesia, Hindu, Vietnam War, Korea, Williams College, Buddhist, Elephant Story, Nigeria, Mumbai, Brookings Institution, Sri Lanka., Robert B. Oxnam, Thought Leader, Manila, University of Massachusetts, Education, Asian Women Leaders, United States, Asia Society, Mathew Luce, Barack Obama, Global Citizen, Boston University, Asian-Americans, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Columbia University, Bombay University, U.S.-Asia Relationship, Hillary Clinton., Youtube, Taliban, India, International Relations, Asian Art History, Gates Foundation, New York News
Jim Luce

Asia Society president Vishakha Desai says, "Ours is a complex institution, and those experiencing it can describe it in the same way the blind men touch and describe an elephant."

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Vietnam's Latest Casualties

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

Read More: Unexploded Ordnance, Marc Kielburger, Landmines, Craig Kielburger, Vietnam War, War, Peacetrees Vietnam, Quang Tri, World News
Craig and Marc Kielburger

The country's landscape is littered with leftover, unexploded ordnance -- still deadly after 34 years. Those farmers who dare till the land often step on landmines in their own fields.

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