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...trainees are only given sticks, not rifles, and I hear that those with 15,000 kyat (about $17) can buy themselves out. The Burmese military is stronger than ever?nearly 40% of the national budget goes to the armed forces, making them the second largest in Southeast Asia after Vietnam's?but also more paranoid than ever. The state-run media is obsessed with Iraq: newspapers carry dozens of articles about suicide bombings, tumbling U.S. troop morale and rising casualties while state TV lifts footage from CNN and dubs over its own gloating commentary. The specter of military intervention...
...current or former U.S. government official--and no prominent U.S. politician aside from long-shot presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich--publicly advocates, to use the Vietnam formulation, declaring victory and getting out of Iraq. Not yet, anyway. But the question lurks under the surface of public debate about what the U.S. should do. And it's not that far under: Senator Edward Kennedy, a frequent campaigner for Kerry, gave a speech last week calling Iraq "George Bush's Vietnam...
...last, he mentions the profound effect that the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy ’48 and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had on him in 1968, then goes on to talk about his father and uncle, both veterans. He came to oppose the war in Vietnam vehemently, but says he still retained a great respect for the military...
...freshman musical, “Hot Noise: Pecs, Jugs and Rock & Roll.” The show chronicles the rise of ’70s rock band, the Red Bricks, from its lowly beginnings at Harvard to the height of superstardom. Witness the turmoil of Vietnam and the Women’s Movement, the power of rock & roll, and the splendor of a sequined jumpsuit. Tickets $5 with Harvard I.D. (HBO). 7:30 p.m. Runs through April 24. Agassiz Theatre...
Ever since the Second World War, Australia has followed the United States—often blindly—into many of America’s crucial ideological battles in the hope of securing a friendship and alliance. Joining the American military presence in Korea, Vietnam and twice in Iraq ensured a bond that neither of Australia’s political parties wanted to forego. Now, for the first time in some 50 years, Latham dared to challenge Australia’s unspoken commitment to its favorite ally...