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...Like Father, Like Son Vietnam hero and Senator JOHN MCCAIN has unyieldingly backed the Iraq war. Now son Jimmy is heading to boot camp and, maybe, to battle
...Iraq is called a war, but for the U.S. it?s really a police action (our official word for the Vietnam involvement). The idea is for the troops to patrol the streets and keep people alive - the civilian population, if possible, but first and foremost themselves. Since there?s no draft, and thus no readily renewable supply of manpower, the goal is to keep U.S. combat deaths down while scoring the maximum number of enemy kills. "It?s peer pressure," says Marine Sean Huze, "group killing." In basic training, the Infantrymen were taught to take this war personally...
...From Vietnam we learned the basic rules of the guerrilla game: that the enemy doesn?t wear a uniform, that it might be a woman or child, that the battle line is anywhere - essentially, that there are no rules - which the various insurgencies have updated by killing many more of its countrymen than they have our soldiers. But you never know who?s going to detonate himself or herself in your vicinity, so it?s simple prudence to shoot first and check for I.D. later...
...decade after 1945 saw jubilation at the arrival of peace, and anxiety as the Cold War took shape — and a wedding took place in London 1956-1966 New sounds in the air, protest in the streets and revolution in the hills 1966-1976 War in Vietnam, Nixon in China and Man on the Moon two in a wide and gentle extension of his arms with the expectation that the weight of history would bring their two hands together. It did. First Arafat reached out, then after what seemed like endless minutes, Rabin responded. Simple, shattering. Berlin...
...After This (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 279 pages), she is settled in once more among her postwar Catholics, telling the story of John and Mary Keane and their four children, a family saga that spans three decades, from the end of World War II to the 1970s. Vietnam makes its lethal appearance, and abortion becomes an option that even Catholic girls exercise, but don't come to this book looking for the Beatles or J.F.K. McDermott's preoccupations go much deeper than baby-boom artifacts, deeper even than mere history. What is it, she wonders, that holds together the loose fabric...