As usual, Obama does not learn from history. Engagement does not necessarily promote freedom — see China, Vietnam, and increasingly less freedom in those countries. In an official announcement in the state newspaperGramma. government officials announced a system in which employees of corporations wi...
If you came back in a box your family got $10K, unless you bought extra insurance from the Dragon Lady, who you were dragged to Battalion HQ to see once your orders were cut for Vietnam. I’m sure there was a kickback. van_down_by_river Nov 8, 2019 at...
Kissinger then reminisced about Vietnam, reminding Gerson that incentives offered through negotiations must be backed up by credible threats of an unrestrained nature. As an example, he brought up one of the many “major” ultimatums he had given the North Vietnamese, warning of “dire conseque...
In a Muslim country like Jordan, you would expect dawn to be marked by the Imam's call to prayer. This morning I went for a marathon training run through the hills of Amman, and I found a whole other call to action: school bus horns. ...
He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history — Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm — but a history that until now has been known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, Colin Powell himself tells us how it happened, in...
FBI HUNTS UNIVERSITY BOMBING SUSPECT ON THE LOOSE SINCE DEADLY ANTI-VIETNAM ATTACK An American Airlines plane heads in for a landing at Boston Logan International Airport. (Photo by Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) "When she was about to go the bathroom he stopped her and sa...
Update No. 2:Ari Kelman, Professor of Education and Jewish Studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, writing in The Nation,Engage, Don’t Boycott: An Open Letter to the American Studies Association: 1. I got into the academic business because I treasure the fundamental value ...
The international survey found that the U.S. leads the world in the belief that you determine your fate. It found that Americans are the “least likely to say they are not the masters of their fate” and the most likely to say that their fate is in their own hands. ...
“EXCEPT during the sixties when the Filipino-American War of 1899-1902 was referred to as “the first Vietnam,” the death of 1.4 million Filipinos has been usually accounted for as either collateral damage or victims of insurrection against the imperial authority of the United States. The fir...
Armed Vietnamese vessels have deliberately collided with Chinese government ships andfishing boats. China has never yet drilled a single oil well in the South China Sea, whilecountries such as Vietnam and Philippines have long been producing oil and gas in the area.We are curious about Hagel'...