Word: vietnamization
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...Mass.), respectively, to increase transparency in campaign finance and to tackle the problem of illegal immigration. Whether you look at these initiatives he’s passed in his 25 years in Congress, or at the five and a half years he spent as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, it is clear that McCain has always made service to his country—and not to a political party—his number one priority...
...murderous regime of sanctions in place from 1991-2003, which were conducted with the active consent of Clinton’s government (and condemned as “genocidal” by the former UN humanitarian coordinator in Baghdad). Or more generally, consider JFK’s misadventures in Vietnam and Cuba, or even reputed “peacenik” Jimmy Carter’s preemptive meddling in Afghanistan...
...Though she protested the Vietnam War on the Boston Common with her peers, “above all she was a defender of Pakistan, which was a fairly unpopular country at liberal Harvard” because of military assaults on civilians in present-day Bangladesh, Galbraith said...
...campus, with a disproportionate number of Chinese, for example, rather than Cambodians or Laotians, relative to the national demographic breakdown. In fact, just a quick look at Harvard’s East Asian Studies concentration reveals that only four Asian cultures are covered—China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam. No subcontinent, Southeast Asia, or Oceania.In fact, Harvard’s East Asian Studies program is a case study for demonstrating the inseparability of academia from underlying political power plays. East Asian studies was founded at the height of American-Asian animosity, with the undergraduate concentration approved in the early...
...Hampshire primary. Many forget that Paul Tsongas - the lethargic, fiscal conservative from Massachusetts - actually won the '92 New Hampshire primary by 9 percentage points. But it was Bill Clinton who after staring down the media over an alleged affair with Gennifer Flowers and questions about his draft status during Vietnam turned a second-place finish into a triumph. "Tonight, New Hampshire's made me the Comeback Kid ... I've proven one thing: I can take a punch." Those two sentences defined the rest of the race - and arguably, Clinton's presidency...