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...What are some of the parallels between anti-war protests against the Vietnam War and the Iraq War on campus...
...Krahel: This University will try and squelch dissent. As somebody who was involved in the hunger strike, I know. They tried to kick us out of Harvard for doing the hunger strike. When it comes down to it, the administration and faculty in those times [during the Vietnam War] were vehemently opposed, and explicitly so, to anti-war activism. This created an opposition. On a lot of campuses, police, things like that were brought in. This was one of them. And they beat students. Students that were otherwise depoliticized saw that. That exploded campuses across the nation, including ours. Students...
...Most of the cost of the war is not borne by people in the intellectual class,” she said. “It creates a luxury for confusion of a kind that didn’t exist during the Vietnam...
...many voters don't get beyond first impressions, but it's not impossible. In 1992 the first thing most Americans learned about Bill Clinton was that he'd been shagging a lounge singer named Gennifer Flowers. The second was that he'd avoided the military draft during Vietnam. But Clinton-a politician as extraordinary as Obama-managed to survive and, intermittently, prosper...
...home, they get a baseline mental and physical health check-up and evaluation, so when they come back later and say they don't feel well, it isn't "Well that couldn't be from your war experience." This has been a problem with regard to Agent Orange from Vietnam, Gulf War Syndrome from the first Gulf War. We've been involved, frankly, in a huge range of issues concerning veterans making sure they don't get overcharged on their cellphones, and making sure that there's some protection from their jobs while they're serving. Most important is health...