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...Democratic Leadership Council is, famously, a centrist organization but, infamously, not a very moderate one. Al From created it in 1985 to transcend the smug, knee-jerk rigidity that overwhelmed the Dems after Vietnam. From was convinced that a new political deal was possible, that liberal ends could be achieved through conservative means. Fiscal responsibility (and free trade) could produce economic growth. Tough-minded welfare reform could reduce poverty. A dose of entrepreneurship would improve American education, health care and environmental protection. The DLC gleefully assaulted the reactionary left-the trade unions and bureaucrats who had a stake...
...from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand may have grown 30% in 2003, they still accounted for only 10.7% of those countries' total exports. "Of course a slowdown carries the risk of reducing exports to China," says Susan Adams, senior resident representative of the International Monetary Fund in Vietnam. "But we don't see it as a major factor that would slow Vietnam's growth...
...Like the Vietnam and the Civil War before it, the conflict in Iraq has become a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight. The draft sending kids to Iraq may be an informal, economic one—but it is no less effective for that. During the Civil War, $400 could buy a drafted man a substitute to go to war in his stead. During Vietnam, there were deferments for men going to college, and exemptions for boys like our President, well-connected enough to wrangle a place in the National Guard...
...homicide. Penalties range from a dishonorable discharge and demotion in rank to decades in prison or the death penalty. The most famous court-martial in recent memory was the 1971 trial of Lieut. William Calley, who was charged with murder for his involvement in the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Although a jury convicted Calley and sentenced him to life in prison, President Nixon reduced his sentence, and he served just 3 1/2 years under house arrest at Fort Benning...
Still, in an interview with TIME, one U.S. Army official defended the use of sexual humiliation. The key, he says, is finding the enemy's psychological vulnerability. In Vietnam, it was cold temperatures. Army special-forces soldiers put prisoners of war in lockers for four or five days, and they lived at borderline hypothermia, he says. In Iraq, cold has been replaced by sexual insecurity. While the official agrees that the Abu Ghraib soldiers were undertrained and undersupervised, he insists that similar tactics--used more carefully--are effective. "When women have power and control over you, that sets the male...