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...simple, brutal willingness to show what war looks like. Without wallowing in gore, Burns and Novick combed through archive and newsreel footage to depict the war as GIs saw it: battlefield corpses, bomb-blasted civilians and waves lapping against bodies on beaches. Compare this with the Iraq conflict, during which the U.S. government has suppressed images of coffins, let alone casualties, often with the cooperation of the media...
Beirut has played host to numerous visiting dignitaries in recent days, each one attempting to resolve the stalemate and defuse the lingering fear of civil conflict breaking out. U.S. officials publicly maintain a neutral stance, saying only that the election should be held on time and without foreign meddling, a reference to Syria. But there is little doubt that Washington prefers a President who will continue to uphold Lebanon's independence from Syria and will seek to implement U.N. resolutions calling for the disarming of Hizballah, regarded by the U.S. as a terrorist organization. On the other hand, Syria...
Walking through Harvard Yard, it’s hard to believe that we are a nation at war. With a volunteer army, few sacrifices being asked of the average American, and the controversy surrounding the conflict, the ethos of “everyone doing their part” that has been a part of past American wars simply does not exist. It does not register that someone our age may have just perished. For all our devotion to the values of academia, we hardly study the war in Iraq and its ramifications. Finally some in the ivory tower are starting...
...Peace.” But there is Government 1730, “War and Politics.” Continue browsing and you’ll find Government 90sp, “The Future of War”; Historical Study A-12, “Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern World”; Government 1732, “The Origins of Modern Wars”; Government 2782, “State Failure and Civil War”; Historical Study B-53, “World War and Global Transformation in the 20th Century”; History...
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