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Throughout the nationally-televised appearance, he stressed his willingness to be tough, frequently referencing his status as a decorated Vietnam veteran...
...Thailand Lyndon Johnson stopped by twice during the Vietnam War; Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton also called. Before air travel, the two countries nurtured a long-distance friendship. In 1861, King Rama IV offered the U.S. a gift of Thai elephants, which, he said, could be "turned loose in forests and increase till there be large herds." Abraham Lincoln graciously declined, saying the elephants wouldn't survive North American winters...
Bush finally traded Pangloss for a panhandle last week, recognizing that humility is the only way to solicit enough money and troops to quash a quagmire at least as intractable as Vietnam. U.N. help in the colonization—ahem, rebuilding—of Iraq is an unambiguous improvement over the status quo, of course, especially given the haphazard and under-funded efforts until now. Bush’s coalition of the hoping-for-favors-later is no substitute for friends with real benefits to give. International troops and money, together with a timeline for an Iraqi constitution and elections...
...emerged on the American political scene first as a civil rights activist in the 1950s and 1960s and subsequently as a staunch opponent of the Vietnam...
...West Wing’ is an extremely naive entry into politics and political thinking,” he says. “When I was at Harvard, the thing that was the threshold that brought people into politics was the [Vietnam] war. I would be amazed if a TV drama would be the thing, with the war in Iraq and with Sept. 11, that would get students interested in politics,” he says. “Now is an extremely contentious time. It couldn’t be more interesting than...