Word: vietnamize
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...expect the best for our wounded. They occupy a special place in the national consciousness. No matter what most Americans think of President Bush's policies, we agree to put the interests of injured soldiers first. It wasn't that way for Vietnam vets, who were scorned and warehoused in decrepit VA hospitals--a mistake Americans don't want repeated. Some of us may feel guilty now for cheering on the invasion only to later lose faith in the war, leaving the troops to deal with the calamitous aftermath. Others of us no doubt feel indebted to a generation...
...cautiously if it is to avoid scuttling its hard-won dialogue with Pyongyang. Kim has repeatedly shown his willingness to walk away at the slightest provocation. Just this week, while the U.S. was parleying with the North Koreans in New York, similar talks between Japan and the North in Vietnam hit a roadblock. According to Japan's Foreign Ministry, Pyongyang temporarily suspended negotiations after Tokyo demanded that it account for Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and '80s. Considering how tricky talking to the North can be, just achieving the immediate goal-the shutdown and dismantlement...
...newscasts from earlier decades, reporting events that might have occurred without the benign influence of the U.S. A final screen flashes a selection of great American contributions to civilization: "A free Afghanistan," "Dishwasher" and "Elvis Presley." After spoofs of the ad sprouted on YouTube--"Slavery," "Nuclear Bomb" and "Vietnam War," retorted one--the original ad shot up the ranks of YouTube's most viewed videos, attracting more than 200,000 viewers to that site and boosting traffic to Doughty Street...
...career change isn't an ending--it's a lifestyle, a pathway to fulfillment that could take them anywhere, like career bees going from flower to flower. Robert Norton, 37, has always buzzed from job to job to make a living. His father, a Marine helicopter pilot, died in Vietnam months before Norton's birth to a Japanese mother, who passed away when he was 19. It took him eight years to work his way through college. He has guided Japanese tourists in Hawaii, sold chocolate in Jamaica, exported sea urchins from Maine, managed real estate in New York City...
...Vietnam veteran, I agree with Kinsley. Bring our troops home, and stop wasting the sacred blood of soldiers and billions of dollars...