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...World War II--era movie, to be precise. Whatever the other ways in which one can try to compare Iraq to Vietnam, in this important respect, here at home, the Vietnam era is over. The post-9/11 era is well under...
Graham still was following politics, albeit from a safe distance now. Though he has never met John McCain, the evangelist recalled stopping in Hawaii on his trips to and from South Vietnam and praying on his knees next to McCain's father Admiral John McCain, then commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, for the son who was being held as a prisoner of war. He watched Mitt Romney wrestle with the Mormon question. "It will be somewhat of a problem for him, like Jack Kennedy being a Catholic," Graham predicted, although he believed Romney could overcome it by directly...
...Cloud seeding was developed in 1946 by scientist Bernard Vonnegut, brother of author Kurt. Countries quickly adopted it. Over the three decades following its introduction, the U.S. spent many millions of dollars a year on the technology. It was even used for a while during the Vietnam War to increase rainfall on the Ho Chi Minh Trail to hamper supply movement. By the 1980s, however, the science of cloud seeding acquired a snake-oil whiff, as disreputable private companies tried hawking it to desperate, drought-ridden communities. Within the decade, it had fallen out of favor...
...protesters, voluble writer and peace activist Makoto Oda was an anomaly. In 1965, citing his core belief in "100% freedom for the individual," the author of the best-selling travelogue I'll Go Everywhere and See Everything co-founded a grass-roots "citizens' league" to oppose U.S. involvement in Vietnam. His group gained converts and motivated a generation of young Japanese activists. Oda, one of TIME ASIA's 2002 heroes, was 75 and had cancer...
...named Al From, a former Senate aide who helped found the DLC in reaction to the Walter Mondale presidential wipeout in 1984 and now serves as its CEO. From is a moderate who acts like an extremist. Early on, he gleefully picked fights with various crumbling pillars of post-Vietnam liberalism-trade unions, antiwar activists and ethnic pleaders. Many of these battles were worth waging, especially on social issues like crime and welfare reform, where Democrats had drifted into a slough of guilt and warped good intentions...