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...city is where the hope is, together with the links to a global economy. Who would not want to be amid the bright lights of a hub? "There's no money on the farm," a young man from Danang province, Vietnam, told me last month, explaining why he was riding me around Saigon on the back of his motorbike to support the family he never saw. The girls in the local bars, like their counterparts in Manila or Shanghai, might have said the same thing: they would give up security, community and family if it led to a chance...
...game during an election. Bush's rise in the polls following the convention showed that the criticisms of Kerry's policies hit their mark. Kerry, by contrast, responded to his falling poll numbers with brutal personal attacks on the President and Vice President, noting their lack of service in Vietnam. It is Kerry who is trying to demolish Bush over personal matters, not vice versa. But the personal attacks are counterproductive. Americans don't care much about military service, or the lack thereof, in choosing leaders. Bill Clinton was twice elected by large margins, defeating legitimate war heroes on both...
...Democrats' efforts to dig up President Bush's National Guard service record in order to unearth something sinister? Why doesn't John Kerry focus on his record and talk about what he would bring to the American people if elected? Instead, he seems to be running on his Vietnam military service. Who truly cares what either of these men did 30 years ago? We should judge them on their actions, positions and records over the past few years. Some people change their lives, views and general conduct (i.e., they mature), whereas others always plug along in the same fashion. Ralph...
Johnston, however, doesn’t consider the blend problematic. He wanted the film to be accessible and appealing to Americans who are not normally attracted to documentaries. This includes his father, a Vietnam veteran who “just doesn’t go see documentaries.” Furthermore, he claims, “all documentaries are manipulated to some degree…the truth was not just floating there for us to find...
...motivations held by our supposed allies among the Afghans and the palpable danger of an arms dealer’s shed after dark are all powerfully unsettling. The inability to determine the loyalties of men standing on barren hillsides with rifles is eerily evocative of the American predicament in Vietnam. Watching the crew careen through Kabul amid real machine gun fire at least equals, and perhaps eclipses, the thrill of elaborately staged action...