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...burning of a village by radical anarchists: "The fire is in the minds of men, not on the roofs of houses." This is a familiar image to members of Bush's, and my own, baby-boom generation-incendiary idealism, soldiers torching straw huts with Zippo lighters in Vietnam, "destroying a village in order to save it." Bush, in the end, is a classic boomer. His was a speech that could only have been delivered by a member of our exorbitantly messianic generation. Our rhetoric has always been the rhetoric of freedom, framed by Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have...
Howie Kapostash is an alert man with a nuanced awareness of things. He enjoys the increments of summer sunlight or the nice construction of a simple lunch box. He also spots the looks that pass between people when they notice his forehead. A Vietnam War injury has left him with a deep indentation in his skull and a messy plug of scar tissue. The wound has all but deprived him of the power of speech. Anytime he tries to talk, the best he can do is bark out one or two syllables. "I gave up explaining years ago," he says...
...longer needs to win an election came across as a pugnacious thug, his swaggering, loves-to-be-hated style more brash than visionary. TIME said he was a "punk at heart" and recalled his college days of wearing cowboy boots and a bomber jacket on campus during Vietnam War protests. Was he an outsider then, as you suggest, or was he then?and is he now?the ultimate insider, a protected son of wealth and power who has little fear of what frightens ordinary people? You quoted him as saying, "I've got all the power I need...
...situation in Iraq is complex and extremely volatile. Although we commonly hear Iraq compared to other modern insurgencies such as Vietnam, the situation we face today is unique in military history. While it seems as if the almost-daily attacks in Iraq are scattered throughout the country, in reality the insurgent are largely confined to a single Sunni dominated area. Additionally, while the attacks on United States military personnel receive the most coverage, they are not the target of the majority of violence. Rather, the attacks are carried out on an assortment of totally innocent civilians: Iraqis working with...
...longer needs to win an election came across as a pugnacious thug, his swaggering, loves-to-be-hated style more brash than visionary. TIME said he was a "punk at heart" and recalled his college days of wearing cowboy boots and a bomber jacket on campus during Vietnam War protests. Was he an outsider then, as you suggest, or was he then-and is he now-the ultimate insider, a protected son of wealth and power who has little fear of what frightens ordinary people? You quoted him as saying, "I've got all the power I need...