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...longer think of the Unites States as needing to be a superpower. Sweden is not worried about terrorists. Denmark, Holland, New Zealand. There are a lot of places in the world not worried about terrorists. They don't have their troops everywhere; they don't have their naval vessels everywhere; they're not bothering other people; they're not intervening. They don't have a record of massive military destruction and intervention. Let's be a more modest nation...
...defense analyst at the RAND Corporation, Ellsberg had helped to compile the extensive study, which revealed that the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution—in which Congress permitted increased U.S. military involvement in Vietnam—had been drafted months before the North Vietnamese attacked U.S. naval vessels in the gulf. It also revealed that, while President Lyndon B. Johnson had publicly described the war as a short-term battle, he oversaw a massive commitment of infantry to Vietnam...
...Angry naval cadets told The Crimson the new policy was “an obvious breach of contract.” Many withdrew from the program, giving up their draft immunity to face the prospect of leaving the College and entering...
...else can you explain, Castro confidants ask, why he didn't explode when Washington dumped hundreds of al-Qaeda prisoners at the U.S. naval base on Cuba's Guantanamo Bay this year? And why didn't he burn like a lighted Cohiba last week when visiting ex-President Jimmy Carter lectured about human rights on live Cuban TV and urged Castro to respect a referendum bid by dissidents seeking more freedoms? Because he knew Carter would make an equally strong call for the U.S. to lift the embargo...
...else can you explain, Castro confidants ask, why he didn't explode when Washington dumped hundreds of al-Qaeda prisoners at the U.S. naval base on Cuba's Guantanamo Bay this year? And why didn't he burn like a lighted Cohiba last week when visiting ex-President Jimmy Carter lectured about human rights on live Cuban TV and urged Castro to respect a referendum bid by dissidents seeking more freedoms? Because he knew Carter would make an equally strong call for the U.S. to lift the embargo...