Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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America miscalculated the strength of the opposing forces in Vietnam, a misjudgement which contributed greatly to the country's first military defeat, a prominent journalist told a standing-room only crowd at the Kennedy School last night...
Stanley A. Karnow '47, former Far East correspondent for the Washington Post and NBC news special correspondent, said, "The biggest blunder [in Vietnam] was our failure to understand the determination and tenacity of the forces against...
Karnow cited other mistakes the U.S. government made during the Vietnam Era, such as supporting the French in 1950 and assuming that North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Min was linked with the Soviet Union...
...best of the lot is Taxi Driver (Lowell House), a 1976 academy-award nominee directed by Martin Scorcese. The war in this film Vietnam, from which one Travis Bickle has just returned. Although Travis, played by Robert (fuckin') DeNiro, was not physically injured during his tour of duty, some essential mental functions are decidedly absent, as in, "lights on, nobody home." Having gotten a job as a cab driver, Travis has ample opportunity to observe the filth (animate and inanimate) that permanently infests New York City. Confronted with a grimy and desperate reality, the earnest hack prophesies: "Some...
...years the subject smoldered in the soul of America. To speak of it, especially favorably was taboo. But recent developments show our society is ready to face the horror and shame of an era that rendered us a nation divided. No, this has nothing to do with Platoonor the Vietnam...