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Bush's Vietnam syndrome: the president draws a wrong lesson.(AT WAR)(George W. Bush)
PRESIDENT BUSH is infected with a Vietnam syndrome. He just doesn't know it.
"I guess if you're 60 years old, you tend to be a product of the Vietnam era," Bush told me and other journalists in the Oval Office recently, when asked if we need more troops in Iraq. "I remember the tactical decisions being made out of the White House during that period of time. I thought it was a mistake then and I think it's a mistake now. And, therefore, a president must have confidence and faith in the people who are actually there determining whether or not our strategy, our tactics are going to achieve the objective."
I asked Bush what if his man on the ground in Iraq, ...
- The Vietnam War and the Teaching and Writing of Oral History: The Reliability...
- Magazine article from: The Oral History Review Prescott, Renate W. June 22, 1999 700+ words
...participants and interpreters of the Vietnam War have yet to reach any kind of consensus...individually as direct experience. The Vietnam War has been written, and then rewritten...thing is sure: too many veterans of the Vietnam War have come home as strangers to their...
- The lessons of Vietnam: using literature to introduce students to the Vietnam...
- Magazine article from: Social Education Kirkwood-Tucker, Toni Fuss Benton, Janet E. October 1, 2002 700+ words
...Southeast Asia, the teaching of the Vietnam War remains one of the most controversial...perspective--even today--on the Vietnam War stands in sharp contrast to the mobilized...and cars. Images surrounding the Vietnam War, in contrast, evoke grainy stills...
- Edward Burton. The Swedish-American Press and the Vietnam War.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies Pederson, John M. December 22, 2005 700+ words
...unrest coinciding with the Vietnam War, intense disagreements...among nations. Yet the Vietnam War caused the United States...offer of foreign aid to North Vietnam; and the Swedish...American press covered the Vietnam War and the foreign policy...
- '2 ROK Vietnam War Veterans Residing in North'.
- Newspaper article from: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea) July 28, 2000 700+ words
...Two South Korean Vietnam War veterans are believed to be residing in North Korea currently...both defected to North Korea during the Vietnam War. ``However...prisoners of the Vietnam War were sent to North Korea and nine of...
- Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication...
- Magazine article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly Donato, Gary June 1, 2005 700+ words
Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America...and Extrication from the Vietnam War. By Henry Kissinger...explores how engaging the North Vietnamese brought America...insightful aspect of Ending the Vietnam War, we see Kissinger grappling...
- Canada's Vietnam legacy. (Canadians' attitudes toward Vietnam War)
- Magazine article from: Canadian Dimension Ziedenberg, Jason October 1, 1995 700+ words
...friendly nation to the north of the great war...about to remember the Vietnam War last April, they...Canadian legacy of the Vietnam War, the facts Levant...under the heading "Vietnam War" in the Canadian...civilian targets in North Vietnam -- acts...
- Using a Simulation and Literature to Teach the Vietnam War.
- Magazine article from: The Social Studies JOHANNESSEN, LARRY R. March 1, 2000 700+ words
...legion of devils. Having taught the Vietnam war and the literature of that war numerous...massacre, the nature of evil, and the Vietnam war. To help my students examine the war...improve their comprehension. In the Vietnam War, mines and booby traps were a constant...
- The War That Never Ends: New Perspectives on the Vietnam War.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Air Power History Schepp, David J. September 22, 2009 700+ words
...to honor eminent Vietnam War scholar Dr. George...women serving the North Vietnamese cause...scholarship on the Vietnam War as a soapbox to oppose...hobnobbing with the North Vietnamese premier...scholarship on the Vietnam War, unless it stands...
Source: HighBeam Research, Bush's Vietnam syndrome: the president draws a wrong lesson.(AT...