Word: vietnamize
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Admirable bipartisanship. Democrats have the country with them against the war in Iraq but aren't acting to end it. Why? This war is the major blunder in American foreign policy. We ought to free ourselves from our troop involvement. But if you look back on Vietnam, it wasn't until 1973 that we passed the resolution that actually halted troops and money. There's no question that this is a slow-moving institution, and it's no new statement to say that we are behind what's happening out in the countryside...
...there was fallout for Democrats appearing weak on Vietnam. It's been the Democrats who have been for armor for the troops. We have been for investing in our servicemen when they come back from Iraq. And it is the Democrats who want to get our American troops out of the civil-war cross fire. Democrats are concerned about the security of the fighting person. Too often Republicans are more interested in protecting the reputation of the President than protecting the troops...
...artist to tame the reluctant, intractable world, and that tension is missing from 300. If you've ever seen Hearts of Darkness, the documentary of the disastrous campaign to make a very different war movie, Apocalypse Now, you've heard Francis Ford Coppola say: "My movie is not about Vietnam. My movie is Vietnam." Coppola's protracted, Pyrrhic struggle against the jungle stokes the movie's crazy energy. In 300 there's not really much of a struggle. If 300 is the Battle of Thermopylae, then Snyder is the digital god-king Xerxes, and not the Spartans...
...which posterity will very likely regard as the most unintelligible in our history, might justifiably produce a certain mild disquietude on the part of those who may be called upon to fight it?” the historian wrote in a letter at the height of the Vietnam...
...society deals with mass media. In the late 60’s and early 70’s, when the Zodiac killings were actually happening, the media was exploding into the American consciousness with sitcoms, high-production-value news reports, and, of course, updates on the war in Vietnam. The Zodiac Killer took full advantage of the country’s growing addiction to TV, and one could argue that hype and attention fueled his random acts of violence. In the end, the film indicts mass media nearly as much as the killer, himself. Fincher portrays the media...