Word: vietnamization
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...Chapel Ranch Road. She's doing two interviews simultaneously, one on her cell phone and another with a reporter on the scene. Sheehan is surrounded by some 60 supporters and a small roadside field of white crosses. Signs saying "Jesus Wept," "Bush: Meet with Cindy" and "Iraq = Arabic for Vietnam" line the country road, along with bongo drums and small lean-tos for shade...
...unfair for us to ask questions,' Sivacek says, adding she'd been concerned about the war even before her husband was posted to Iraq. "(War) is just too much for any person," she says. In addition to the pressure of raising a disabled child, Sivacek says her uncle, a Vietnam veteran, had committed suicide in June of this year, compounding her fears about America's fighting forces and military spouses...
...Ethics for the Military As our Milestone on the death of U.S. Navy Vice Admiral James Stockdale noted [July 18], he was a prisoner of war for seven-and-a-half years during the Vietnam War. After he was released, he credited his background in philosophy with helping him survive the ordeal. In a Feb. 19, 1979, profile of Stockdale, when he was president of the U.S. Naval War College and a philosophy teacher there, we described Stockdale's commitment to teaching his military students how to combat "the deadening of moral sensitivities...
...have pretty much been failures," says Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard. "It's a bit of a conceptual mismatch. If your roof leaks, you don't have a war against rain." Often those waging the wars request a name change. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey, who fought in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, called the war metaphor "inadequate" for drugs in 1996: "This isn't going to be won by anybody's army." Former State Department official David Long told the New York Times in 1998 that flu would be a better analogy for terrorism: "Every year there...
...TIME/CNN poll conducted by market-research firm TNS in 12 nations across Asia last month, more that half of those who replied said they were sanguine about the prospect of an increasingly powerful Japan, with more than 60% of respondents in Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam approving of its growing clout. But in South Korea and Hong Kong?places that still bear grudges over Japan's harsh wartime occupation?a majority of those polled were worried. Asians were also less than enthusiastic about Japan's ambition to become a permanent member of the Security Council; only 49% felt it deserves...