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...despite the generation’s intimate knowledge of the horrors of war, for those three long years, most remember little debate in dining halls and classrooms about the war??s purpose, save the protests of one or two left-wing groups like the Young Progressives...
...Korean War??often called the “forgotten war,” since Vietnam and World War II are generally better remembered—was a complicated issue for the Class...
...nearness of World War II also meant that members of the Class of 1953 knew many veterans—and many stories about the war??and so did not hold many illusions about the grim reality of combat...
Maybe this whole debate is simply a measure of the war??s success. Instead of talking about tens of thousands of Iraqis and Americans slaughtered in a grisly showdown over Baghdad, we’re focusing on the destruction of artwork. But people seem to have forgotten that the fall of Baghdad could very easily have been a horrific battle. Our perfect hindsight makes it easy to criticize the Coalition for not sprinkling a tank here and there to protect important museums; after all, a counter-attack never materialized. Yet these are not realistic demands, for isolated...
...monger, but it seems fairly clear to me that our government’s decision is not always between “war?? on one hand and “peace” on the other. Sometimes, that choice might be between “war?? and “immense national security threat,” or it might involve a variety of other complex considerations. As far as my memory serves, the terrorist hunt that led the American military into Afghanistan after the World Trade Center attacks...