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...Webb is a much decorated Vietnam War hero, successful novelist and former Secretary of the Navy in the Reagan Administration. He is running in the Virginia Democratic Senate primary against Harris Miller, a longtime party activist and telecommunications-industry lobbyist. And it's strange: Webb's Democratic bona fides are the big question in the June 13 election, but he refuses to offer a pat answer. He wanders through his response, talking as a writer thinks, trying one pathway, then another--and it requires some patience from the audience, which is used to hearing politicians give smooth, market-tested replies...
...officer, for example, is spending his days with grim reading, as Congress, the Pentagon and the press investigate charges that the Marines were responsible for the deaths of some two dozen Iraqi civilians. He has gone through Congressional reports about the My Lai massacre. He has read America in Vietnam by Guenter Lewy. He has a well-thumbed copy of The Rape of Nanking, a searing account of Japanese atrocities in that Chinese city during World War II. He is preparing for the worst. This officer knows that the entire Marine Corps will be hard hit if the Haditha allegations...
...senior Marine officer, the one reading up on historical atrocities, to reexamine the concept of punishment in America, and it is here that he is resentful of the outside world, not just those who may have committed such acts. He was surprised by a passage in America in Vietnam which details how Americans traditionally think a soldier who commits a war crime should be put to death with little regard to the conditions or insight into the soldier himself. But a common murderer is treated more thoughtfully - his background, childhood, education and social circumstances are taken into consideration when looking...
...wife of that other Clinton. The arguments for and against-and between-these two honorable politicians have become arthritic with age, debilitating. In fact, most of the arguments that have dominated baby-boom politics are rutted and irrelevant. The perpetual culture wars between Republican and Democrats, the legacy of Vietnam and racial, gender, sexual-preference and religious militancy have all become poisonous diversions from the very serious national conversation that needs to take place. We baby boomers have not proved very adept at running the show. It may well be time for a new generation of leadership...
...fighting a violent and unpopular war--or because their commanders failed them. Military psychiatrists who have studied what makes a soldier's moral compass go haywire in battle look first for a weak chain of command. That was a factor in the March 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, when U.S. soldiers, including members of an Army platoon led by Lieut. William Calley, killed some 500 Vietnamese. Says a retired Army Green Beret colonel who fought in Vietnam: "Somebody has failed to say, 'No, that's not right.'" No one, apparently, was delivering that message last November in Haditha...