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...rhetorical offensive, Senator Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., said last Tuesday, “Suggesting that to challenge and criticize policy is undermining and hurting our troops is not democratic, nor [is it] what this country has stood for over 200 years.” Though Hagel, a Vietnam veteran, has criticized the war for a long time, the fact that he is willing to so publicly defy the Bush administration highlights the growing power of Iraq critics within Congress. In essence, these critics are finally calling the Bush administration on its implicit contention that Congress’ Oct. 2002 vote...
...Murtha, a Marine combat veteran of Vietnam, was speaking from the heart. He makes weekly visits to Washington-area military hospitals. He has spent a lifetime devoted to what he perceives to be the best interests of the U.S. military. But unlike McCain, Murtha does not seem to believe that the war against Islamist terrorism is the highest national priority. He said Iraq threatened to drain resources from "procurement programs that ensure our military dominance." On the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, he wondered if China were the real threat "down the road" and expressed dismay that "we only bought four...
...autobiography of Charles Robert Jenkins, the U.S. Army sergeant who left his post in South Korea and fled to the communist North in 1965 [Oct. 24], will generate a lot of sympathy for him. We shouldn't forget, however, that he deserted because he was scared of going to Vietnam. Legally, Jenkins is a free man now, having been discharged from the U.S. military. But knowing about those who served honorably in Korea, Vietnam, the first Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq, I have difficulty feeling any sympathy for that coward. Kazuho Baba Anaheim, California...
...event. Both Nosal and Downer are familiar with the military life. Nosal grew up in Pensacola, Fl., which has one of the largest naval air bases in the country, as well as being home to branches of the marines, navy, and airforce. Downer’s father fought in Vietnam and, upon his return to the U.S., had to deal with the scorn of his fellow countrymen, Downer said. “It’s easy to say that you’re against the war or that you’re against what’s going...
BROOKS: Not necessarily. In the 1970s, the loss of faith in government caused by Vietnam and Watergate actually ended up helping the right because Ronald Reagan came in saying, "Don't trust government." That doesn't mean it'll happen again that way, but there's an opportunity for a party to assert authority and order and say, "I'm going to end the chaos." The hunger for order in society is very strong...