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...recent suicide-bombing attacks in Turkey, Bush said, "[terrorists] hate freedom. They hate free countries." Are we to believe that people who blow themselves up do so to bring democracy to its knees? Somehow that sounds far-fetched and not unlike the motives attributed to the enemy in Vietnam. Moreover, our response of attacking violence with more violence is as illogical as fighting fire with gasoline. War is like a fire in the human community, fueled by living beings. Let's put the fire out. Dennis Kostecki Holladay...
...Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin was scheduled to speak on campus, and we met at the meeting of many Harvard students who were going to organize the protests against his visit. When President Jiang spoke on Nov. 1, 1997, it was the largest protest Harvard had seen since the Vietnam War, with over 4,000 protesters. Jianli spoke eloquently to the crowd about his love for China and what he witnessed in Tiananmen Square...
Clark, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, served for three years as North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Supreme Allied Commander, leading the coalition’s aerial campaign against Serbia in the spring...
...Instead of being raised to hero status, Lynch should have been court-martialed. By her own admission, she threw down her weapon and just prayed. This is cowardice in the face of the enemy. I am a Vietnam veteran, and I can assure you that the only heroes in the Jessica Lynch story are the troops who rescued her. Dan Raveia Fairfax...
Almost 40 years ago, thousands of college students across America faced a grim prospect upon graduation—the Vietnam War. Today, while there is no draft, your future and America’s future once again has a cloud hanging over it—the war in Iraq...