Word: vietnamize
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...with Vietnam, rich men wage the war and poor boys fight...
American foreign policy, which is a result of an economic system dominated by huge corporations and an ethnocentric domestic discourse, is fundamentally flawed. John Kerry, accused of war crimes in Vietnam, backed by corporate interests and working within the same systemic parameters, portends to be only mildly better than President George W. Bush...
...reality upon which my classmates and I did agree was that the war in Vietnam was an awful mistake. We would, thereby, dedicate ourselves to both stopping it and making certain that America did not send her grand young sons off in harm’s way again without a worthy cause and an executable plan...
Thirty-six years ago this fall I became the first Vietnam veteran to register as a freshman at Harvard. My new classmates had little, if any, understanding or appreciation for my experience. The University, unlike a generation before us, was not a veteran friendly place. Little has changed since (Column, “Poor Man’s Fight...
...There are precious few Vietnam veterans in the three branches of the federal government. That absence permeates through all elements of our society from the faculty in Harvard University (student deferments personified thirty-five years after) to business, non profits, foundations, the legal profession, physicians...