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The "Phoenix Programme" is straight out of Vietnam. It entailed covert, US special forces assassination squads that raided country villages to execute suspected VietCong officials and sympathizers. Postwar analysis revealed their targeting information was routinely poor and they wound up murdering a lot of innocents.Now a United Nations official is sounding the alarm about something...
... in foreign language beer t- shirts or cheap street curry or cats with broken tails or lady boys or Vietcong numbers tattooed across a topless bums arm or monkeys chained to 12th century relics. It is simply life living as simply as it would where I grew up with collared shirts, sunday church, monday night football, dog walking, expensive sneakers, pumpkin pie and strip malls ....and...
... strategy which waits out the clock. The Tories would like to think themselves an electoral VietCong. The problem is, this strategy has two fundamental weaknesses. First, it relies on the opposition choosing someone relatively incapable whom you could defeat in a general election anyway - a Stanfield, a Meighen, Stockwell Day. But what do you do when the hapless opposition choose...
Protesting the Vietnam War in Oakland, 1967 The Dissent magazine symposium on 1968: Lessons Learned in the Spring 2008 issue includes a number of contributions. I discussed Michael Kazin's in an earlier post. Another essay in the group brings up an interesting comparison between public opposition to the Vietnam War in the 1960s and opposition to the Iraq War today. Dissent editor Michael...
...across the street. News people and editors were more courageous during the Vietnam War. What are they afraid of now? Who can forget the shocking picture of the little Vietnamese girl running down a road, aflame from a napalm attack? And who can forget the picture of South Vietnamese Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan putting a gun to the temple of a young member of the Viet...
Jump to the full entry & travel map Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam My first impression of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) was the absolutely insanity of their traffic!!!! The roads are literally a free for all...I thought I'd seen crazy but this was something else...almost surreal. To cross the street you need eyes all around your head and superior dodging skills. I arrived in the city...
... backfire, adding to public dissent -- much as happened with the Nixon administration's attack on VietCong sanctuaries in Cambodia in 1970. How would it play out in the campaign ? How about how would it play out in Iran ? The problem with Nixon's "attack on VietCong sanctuaries"--and, really? is that still the line in Washington'--wasn't that it "backfired" politically...
... the first day doing this). We ended up going to the War Remenants museum which is all about the Vietnam War reffered to over here as the US War. This museum was VERY biased towards how awful the US were and in some parts, extremely, ridiculously graffic. Once again, it was great to take this all in because none of us really knew much about what happened over in during this time. One of the...
Full of mini alligators and VietCong. Larry Whitehead would've had a flashback for sure. The guy who does Jean Luc's spanish voice dub is a poor replacement for the sonorous manliness of Patrick Stewart. I think facebook status updates are not the most appropriate place to express personal anguish over someone dying. Maybe I’m just old and out of touch. One thing I love about Spanish...
... Quick, somebody change his diaper already and get baby a new bottle... The man can take on the VietCong but mentioning that McCain has lost his way is beyond reproach? Oh, and I finally saw this full quote from Hamas' spokesman that the wingers are all talking about: Indeed, on April 13th, senior Hamas political advisor Ahmed Yousef said, ‘We don't mind – actually we like Mr. Obama....
... backfire, adding to public dissent -- much as happened with the Nixon administration's attack on VietCong sanctuaries in Cambodia in 1970. Adding to the combustible mix is Hillary Clinton 's hawkish position on Iran, which has support from the center-right of the party even if she drops out. Her rhetorical threat to "totally obliterate" Iran if it launched a nuclear attack against...
... backfire, adding to public dissent -- much as happened with the Nixon administration's attack on VietCong sanctuaries in Cambodia in 1970. Adding to the combustible mix is Hillary Clinton's hawkish position on Iran, which has support from the center-right of the party even if she drops out. Her rhetorical threat to "totally obliterate" Iran if it launched a nuclear attack against...
