Word: vietnamization
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...shadow of these giant alliance shifts, Southeast Asian nations, too, are scrambling. Vietnam, for one, is fortifying its outposts in the Spratly Islands and wooing its old enemy, the Pentagon. Singapore has become a de facto base for the U.S., and the Philippines has welcomed back American forces after booting them out in the early 1990s - mainly to fight local terror groups, but also possibly as a bulwark against China. Nations from Singapore to Malaysia have upgraded their submarine fleets, and Indonesia just signed a $1 billion weapons deal with Russia...
...Senator John Kerry, D-Mass., took a glance backward. The Vietnam vet likened Petraeus' testimony to that of William Westmoreland, the Army general who told Congress in 1967 that things were getting better in Southeast Asia. Not since then, he said, has a U.S. general played such an important role in the making of U.S. national-security strategy. "But," he added, "almost half the names that found their way to the Vietnam wall after that testimony found their way there when our leaders had acknowledged, in retrospect, that they knew the policy was not working...
...authorizing war." While many senators (including Kerry) parroted bogus stats supplied by Iraq "experts" on the imminent danger Saddam posed to the U.S., Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) counseled caution: "There is no victory in the destruction of one tyrant while breeding 10,000 terrorists." John McCain, a Vietnam POW for five years, voted for the war; but a few used Vietnam as a warning from history. "You're sentencing thousands of Americans to sure death," declared Rep. Pete Stark (D-Cal.). "Some of you did that [when the Senate authorized the Vietnam engagement in 1964], and you can look...
...America's participation in the Vietnam war had a readymade counter-insurgency: the young people who might be drafted to serve in it. This time, the most articulate opponents are not the young people eligible to go to war. It's the ones who came back. The ex-GIs who now serve in antiwar groups are not natural radicals, not lifelong pacifists. They love their dogs. They love their wives (and wish, the ones most severely wounded, that they could make love to them). And they luvvvv the gung-ho war movie Top Gun. They just think the Iraq occupation...
...source familiar with the situation suggests that Iran may be positioning itself for a seat on the United Nations Security Council when the selection process take place next month. If elected, Iran would serve a two-year stint as a temporary member from the Asia region. To date, only Vietnam of the countries in that region has formally announced its candidacy for the post. Whether Nicaragua would support Iran in a bid for the Security Council remains unknown. Attempts to interview the ambassador proved unsuccessful...