Word: vietnamize
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...Gore or even Colin Powell were President, the U.S. and Britain would almost certainly not be in this Vietnam-like quagmire. A blinkered President and his Secretary of Defense, ignoring the warnings of many, implemented a gung-ho unilateralism that has alienated allies and is sending thousands of angry young men into the arms of Osama bin Laden. Do Americans realize how low their country's reputation has sunk? The 9/11 attacks were a tragedy, but they provided an opportunity for a police action against terrorists that, combined with multilateral diplomacy, could have won the battle for Muslim hearts...
This is Bush's own crusade, in which his faith remains steadfast. To critics who charge that he has dragged the country into another Vietnam, he responds that World War II is the more apt analogy. "America has done this kind of work before," he says. "We lifted up the defeated nations of Japan and Germany and stood with them as they built representative governments ... America today accepts the challenge of helping Iraq in the same spirit, for their sake and our own." Perhaps the greatest difference is that this time the actual invasion feels like the easy part. "While...
...streets wondered how they would be viewed when they came home. In the midst of the prison-abuse scandal, the concern emerges again. "Now we wonder what people back home think of us," a young officer in Karbala told the New York Times last week. "Will it be like Vietnam, where everyone who's fought there is labeled a baby killer?" If nothing else, Vietnam taught us the price of fighting wars whose original noble purpose itself becomes a casualty...
...reactions then and since suggest the soldiers needn't worry. If many Americans of a certain age feel guilt about their failure to separate their opposition to the Vietnam War from the men who fought it, they have been determined ever since not to repeat that error. Sympathy for the soldiers is acute, even as opinion about the present war still divides and doubts begin to conquer even former supporters. Respect for the troops is the one thing Americans have in common when nothing else can be shared. Far from bringing shame on all soldiers, the Abu Ghraib scandal elicits...
...Pumping Iron, Butler is hoping he will have crafted the definitive answer onto 90 minutes of celluloid in time to hit theaters by late summer. The film will be loosely based on Tour of Duty, Douglas Brinkley's admiring biography of Kerry's years as a boat captain in Vietnam and then as an antiwar protester. But Butler brings more to the $1.3 million project than his cinematic skills. A close friend of the Senator's for four decades--he even served as press secretary for Kerry's failed 1972 congressional campaign--Butler has photographed Kerry almost obsessively...