Word: vietnamization
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...VIETNAM...
...survives a career in politics without crossing paths with a few rogues. But it's also true that no candidate - not even one as strongly branded in the public mind as Giuliani - entirely controls his public image. Three years ago this summer, John Kerry watched in dismay as his Vietnam record was turned against him by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Something similar could happen, if Giuliani isn't more careful, to Hizzoner's carefully crafted image as the scourge of wrongdoers the world over...
This is a big change. In the century since the U.S. became a world power, relations with other strong nations have dominated our foreign policy. (Even when we went to war in Korea and Vietnam or tried to overthrow regimes in Cuba and Nicaragua, it was mostly to prevent a superpower--the Soviet Union--from extending its reach.) As late as 2000, when Condoleezza Rice laid out Governor George W. Bush's foreign policy vision in an article in Foreign Affairs, she cited Russia 35 times and China...
...created after World War II, there have been only two who were more powerful than their counterpart at State: Robert McNamara over Dean Rusk in the 1960s and Donald Rumsfeld over Colin Powell in George W. Bush's first term. McNamara and Rumsfeld presided over the wars in Vietnam and Iraq. Indeed, the primacy of Rumsfeld and his patron Dick Cheney has created a deep wound. Their constant undermining of the U.S. intelligence community, the putdowns of "old Europe," their impatience with U.N. inspectors, the assumption that might made right-and the hints of racial and religious superiority inherent...
...When administrators refused to distribute the UC’s calendar proposal to the entire Faculty of Arts and Sciences via e-mail, Petersen submitted an official request asking that the Commission of Inquiry—a relic of Vietnam-era student activism that hadn’t been assembled in nearly 20 years—be convened. (The request was dropped...