Word: vietnamize
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...goals you said we need to meet to win the war in Iraq is to train Iraqi military forces to take over the job of maintaining order. But during the Vietnam War we spent years training South Vietnamese troops to take over the fighting. The North Vietnamese, however, easily prevailed as the war reached a climax. The Administration suggests that the Iraqi army, when trained, will be able to subdue the wave of terrorism sweeping Iraq. This is utter nonsense and just more political spin. Larry Mercer Yakima...
...presidential campaign has confirmed that the Vietnam War is still a touchy subject for many Americans. Davey (Abe Riesman ’08) is a bit more touched than most. Guilt-stricken over his country’s role in Vietnam, the blinded veteran decides to bring the truth of the war home to his complacent middle-class parents by teaching them what it’s like to be a Vietnamese peasant: he orders them to pick up grains of minute rice from the floor while his wife fires gunshots randomly into the air (shooting him in process...
...Maureen, Davey’s Vietnamese wife who is actually from Schenectady, Andrea Spillman ’07 is a cheerful escapee from Vietnam whose eyes grow vacant as the play progresses and she retreats into a fantasy world. A former child prostitute now ogled and molested by her in-laws, Maureen finds America uncomfortably like the land she has just left. In a cutting satire of liberal guilt, the revelation of Maureen’s heritage sends Davey into a suicidal depression, leaving his wife to fend for herself. The play’s other victim is Harry (David...
...white landowners in paper hats dance around chanting “No girls allowed! No blacks allowed!...It’s a good thing the word racist hasn’t been invented yet!” Next come Jim Crowe laws, the Seneca Falls Convention and finally the Vietnam war protests that eventually resulted in lowering the voting age to match the age for draft eligibility with the 26th Amendment...
Despite its important role in American history, however, the scene in which two wounded soldiers sing a homesick “Santa Clause Is Coming To Town” in an attempt to portray the horrors of Vietnam might just as well have been left out, given its incongruity with the overall tone of the play and the difficulty of doing justice to that subject matter...