Word: vietnamize
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...With his Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now due out in a DVD set this month and production of his next movie, Youth Without Youth, completed, Academy Award--winning director, vintner and hotelier Francis Ford Coppola talks with TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan about why all war movies are antiwar movies, what grapes have done for his filmmaking career and what he has learned from his daughter, Oscar-winning screenwriter Sofia Coppola...
...House-that it has tried to run a war without bipartisan support. Indeed, it has often attempted to use the war for partisan gain. To be sure, there is some grist to the Republican portrayal of Democrats as a bunch of wimpy peaceniks. All too often in the post-Vietnam past-the first Gulf War, for example-the default position of the Democratic Party has been to assume that any prospective use of U.S. military power would be immoral. But Bush's initial post-9/11 response was not one of those times. The invasion of Afghanistan and an aggressive...
...front endured in World War II: the rationing and deprivations, the ache in millions of families when their children went off to war. Want real war movies? Impose a draft. That's why there was an impulse to make movies about soldiers in World War II, Korea and, eventually, Vietnam. For most Americans, Iraq is a bloody mess where other people's kids do the bleeding...
...loss. “For the sake of our state, our country and my party, I cannot and will not let that result stand.”But friends from Lamont’s college days at Harvard say that while he was strongly liberal and outspokenly against the Vietnam War, he befriended students across the political spectrum.“He tolerated the conservatives,” Richard W. Edelman ’76, one of Lamont’s college friends, said. “The thing about Ned Lamont is he gets along with everybody...
...wariness over plunging back into what Israelis remember as their own Vietnam may help explain Israel's caution over expanding the ground war. And so even though the Israeli cabinet on Wednesday gave Prime Minister Ehud Olmert the authority to order a wider invasion, Israeli officials made clear that ordering such an move further north into Lebanon would wait a few days to see the outcome of the diplomatic wrangling...