Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America
Paul Soglin: Waxing America (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The San Francisco Examiner nailed it. The headline is "Lyndon Baines Obama takes Afghanistan reins." Earlier this year, President Barack Obama described the conflict in Afghanistan as a “war of necessity,” but the plan he announced last night at the U.S. Military Academy bears disturbing reminders of the doomed strategy doggedly pursued by the last Democratic president...
The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Tonight, Obama pulls a Wilson-FDR-Johnson. Having been elected as the relative peace candidate, he is escalating his war on Afghanistan. He is also urging young Afghan men to enlist in the government army of an oil lobbyist and die for the US and its pipeline. Actually, this is Nixon’s Vietnamization all over again. Just as [...]
The Elephant Bar (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
US bid to bypass Karzai's Afghan government upsets allies Appointment of 'high representative' in Kabul forms part of Barack Obama's latest strategy Julian Borger, diplomatic editor guardian.co.uk, Monday 30 November 2009 17.58 GMT The US is seeking to extend its control over the day-to-day running of Afghanistan with the appointment of an international "high representative" in Kabul in an...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Didn't Obama learn history at Harvard? Plain Talk By Al Neuharth, USA TODAY Founder President Obama is very smart about many things. He was a brilliant scholar at Harvard. But he apparently hasn't learned history. President Lyndon Baines Johnson also...
Bats Left/Throws Right (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
LYNDON Baines Johnson? Thirty-sixth President of the United States? Anyone? Rahm'The United States of America, A Play in One Actby James B. RileyVOICE: Again, sir, we apologize for your inconvenience. We value your business, and we appreciate you taking the time to bring this problem to our attention. We will forward the matter to our management team, in the hope that we can improve our...
All Things Pakistan (ATP) (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Raju Jamil That cloudy day of June-1961 at Karachi International Airport gave a weary look due to that mild heat spell which was telling on the faces of the scores of Government Officials and Diplomats lined up along side the President of Pakistan General Mohammad Ayub Khan . All these people were there to receive Lyndon [...]
Objective Conservative (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... have created even more problems for himself by deceiving the American public, not unreminiscent of Lyndon Baines Johnson. While some in the media will extol his great speech and his definitive policy we continue to assert that this 'Afghan war' will be the albatross around his neck in 2012 and, frankly, he will have hung it there by his unrealistic deception of self and the American...
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical² (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... 5 bucks!" Joe the Plumber: A Campaign Issue Again Ohio's corrupt Democrat regime can't let go Lyndon Baines Obama takes Afghan reins President Johnson's Vietnam strategy rejected decisive military action in favor of a policy of gradual escalation that conveniently allowed more funding for his Great Society programs at home ... Dick Cheney = Ted Bundy The Rosetta Stone tool for...
Never Yet Melted (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Tonight, Lyndon Baines… excuse me! Barack Obama will speak to the American people from West Point announcing his commitment of 34,000 additional US troops (in response to a request, months ago, from the field commander for 40,000). It has clearly taken considerable behind-the-scenes debate within the administration, and soul searching on the part of the commander [...]
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... plans for escalating another misbegotten war in Afghanistan. Faux history has it that President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s infusion of hundreds of thousands, up to 536,000, combat troops into Vietnam was a straight-line continuation of a buildup started by his slain predecessor. Kennedy did raise the U.S. troop level there from about 1,000 to 16,500 “advisers”-- a significant...
