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...joint partnership to advance international peace and prosperity based on the tenets of democracy, freedom and human dignity. An economically strong and united India will provide much needed balance, succor and harmony to the world community. Subhash C. Kapoor Noida, India Cheney's Final Shots Thousands of Vietnam veterans heaved a collective sigh of relief that sharpshooter Cheney [Feb. 27] received five draft deferments. Harry Palmer Marblehead, Massachusetts, U.S. time's story suggested that this circus was the last thing the President needed. On the contrary, the circus seems to have provided the media with a less damaging diversion from...
...Absolutely not. It's the biggest debacle in foreign policy this country has seen since Vietnam. It's money and lives down the drain. It has cost hundreds of billions of dollars with billions more to come. It has destabilized the Middle East. It has cost more than 2,300 lives of Americans and probably 100,000 lives of Iraqis. It has enflamed the Islamic world. This was a misconceived war. It has cost America standing in the world since it was launched under false pretenses. This war has been a disaster from the start. We ought...
...delicate thing, and the thing we've all tried to portray versus the Vietnam War, is separating the warrior from the war. You're not fighting for a policy or an administration. You're fighting for the country. When the country sends you to war, you can't ask if it's right or wrong, you just go to war. We as policymakers have to ask that question. We have a duty, an obligation, when we think it's a mistake to say that. So I have to say it was a mistake...
There has been a pattern for modern American wars going back to Korea: broad public support at the outset, growing concern as casualties rise or progress stalls and then a new resolutioneither do what it takes to win or get us out. In Vietnam, nine years passed after the first U.S. servicemen were killed and more than 20,000 others died before a majority of Americans concluded we were on the wrong course. Opinion swung more quickly this time, as the cost-benefit analysis changed. When the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) weren't found and the Saddam...
...Thousands of Vietnam veterans heaved a collective sigh of relief that sharpshooter Cheney received five draft deferments. Harry Palmer Marblehead, Massachusetts...