Nixon nostalgia is au courant
It’s a sign of the weariness of our times that
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The margin of the pullout vote and public opinion: not your father’s Vietnam
The Democratic leadership is pushing vigorously for further confrontation with the Bush administration over a timetable for a pullout. They clearly seem to think they have a winner for themselves in the political sense, whatever the fallout for Iraq itself. … Continue reading →
Congress: don’t blame us, we pass resolutions!
New bumper sticker: Don’t blame us: we’re from Congress, and we pass resolutions! It’s reminiscent of the post-Watergate 1974 message that used to be plastered all over the cars in Boston, where I lived at the time: “Don’t blame me, … Continue reading →
Ford’s veto?
Yesterday’s post of mine was linked at Dean Esmay, and my old friend mikeca wrote a critique in the comments section there. I’ve already debated mikeca’s viewpoint about whether or not the South Vietnamese ARVN might have held off against … Continue reading →
Vietnamization; Iraqization: (Part II)
[Part I here] Whatever your opinion of President Nixon’s politics and policies, I think most of us can agree he was a strange and duplicitous man. I was not a fan, to say the least. I watched many of his … Continue reading →
Vietnamization; Iraqization (Part I)
Wars tend to be hard on Presidents as well as on nations. Lincoln barely survived the Civil War before he was assassinated. Wilson’s health permanently deteriorated in the immediate aftermath of WWI, when he undertook a grueling speaking tour in … Continue reading →
As Bob Woodward morphs into Kitty Kelly, Vietnam’s shadow hovers over us all
Bob Woodward has done an about-face from the relatively Bush-approving stance of his last two books on the administration. The present one, State of Denial, is by all accounts a description of a quarrelsome and conflict-ridden administration, with Rumsfeld, Cheney, … Continue reading →
Reutergate: the blogosphere fact-checks your ass; what do you fact-check?
Kate of Small Dead Animals has given the story the perfect name: Reutergate. Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs (he of “Rathergate” and the superimposed forged memos fame) has caught Reuters red-handed in allowing a Photoshopped image of the war … Continue reading →
The ailing NY Times: the watchdog has rabies
Recently the NY Times has been engaged in what appears to be a campaign of its own: the publication of security secrets in the current war (on terror, on jihadis, call it what you will) waged by the US. Why … Continue reading →
Question authority: Part III (Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers)
[Part I] [Part II] The initial coverup of My Lai in the late 60s, discussed in Part II, helped make Americans more cynical–more likely to believe the government couldn’t be trusted to uncover wrongdoings through the mechanism of internal investigations. … Continue reading →
More on McCarthy and the Washington Post
This NBC News article, about the firing of CIA officer Mary McCarthy for leaking to Washington Post reporter Dana Priest, mentions an interesting tidbit or two. It seems that McCarthy had flunked a polygraph test earlier when queried. This, of … Continue reading →
CIA leaks and the press; Iraqi compromise
I don’t often do roundups and links. But lately, there have been so many important stories that I haven’t had time to cover–and that others have covered so very thoroughly–that I thought I’d handle them this way rather than ignore … Continue reading →