Word: vietnamization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...simply sick of the U.S.'s spending our money and our young people's lives for political ideals. What would Americans do if Saddam Hussein or any other world leader believed that Bush was evil and decided to trump up charges to end his term? I'm a Vietnam veteran, and if that happened, I would start making some car bombs. What right do we have to police the world? Iraq is an Arab problem and should be solved by the Arab world. CHARLES DELLING Waterford, Mich...
...against the war. He claims that American news outlets began a backlash.“When people started vilifying me and my family, I decided to write the play,” he says. Recalling his low-income upbringing, and how his younger brother missed being drafted in the Vietnam War by only a year, Robbins says he was outraged that America was “letting the lower class fight this war.”But, once the play opened, he says, the fact that critics didn’t acknowledge the gravity of the subject matter infuriated...
...coincidence that the Democratic congressman, the most pro-military voice in Congress to call for a withdrawal from Iraq, was in Philadelphia, to visit the port and an obesity center. The burly, white-haired retired Marine officer, who received two Purple Hearts for volunteer service in Vietnam, held a news conference four blocks from the Park Hyatt, at the Ritz-Carlton. Murtha said he was getting huge response from the press and public because he has been articulating long-suppressed sentiments. And he seems to be reveling in the attention. As he walked to the black Denali that was ferrying...
...summer of 1971, British director Peter Watkins led a band of documentary filmmakers and amateur actors into the Mojave Desert to film “Punishment Park,” his incendiary indictment of the American government’s escalating use of violence against civil rights activists, Vietnam War protesters, and “hippies” of all stripes. Released to almost universal derision, the film’s recent DVD reissue, by Project X and New Yorker Video, endeavors to expose “Punishment” to the large audience it so richly deserves. The film...
...height of the Vietnam War, Arlo Guthrie wrote a song about littering. The song, “Alice’s Restaurant,” tells the story of a young man who is called before the draft board only to discover that an arrest for littering a few years back makes him ineligible to serve in the Vietnam War, a war he detests. The narrator, asked if he’s rehabilitated himself after his crime, loses his cool. “You got a lot a damn gall,” he explodes...