Topic: Vietnam
Asia's ingenuity will leave U.S. behind if we stay on current pathThe age of American exceptionalism. When Alexis de Tocqueville referred to the United States as an exceptional nation, he struck a chord not only in the hearts of America but also ...
Thomas Carper is a U.S. Senator from the state of Delaware . He is also a Vietnam War veteran, and served five terms in the U.S. House of Representatives for the state of Delaware. Senator, United States Senate Deputy Minority Whip , ...
A Democratic operative announced on Friday the launch of a new Democratic leaning IRS 524 committee. " As per Democratic message both universal and particular Iraq policy remains status quo ante. The sentiment and strategy behind the "Patriot Majority"-lock the barn door ...
The choices for President of the United States in 2008 have narrowed to three candidates. Instead,the three candidates, Hillary Clinton ,Barack Obama,and John McCain ,represent powerful political forces which jaded the body politic in the aftermath of Vietnam/Watergate of the mid-1970s. Clinton ...
Vietnam is one of those countries that produces more history than it can consume locally. How does one define "winning" and "losing" when the entire enterprise is based on a lie?I've been to Vietnam twice, for two weeks in 2000 and for ...
America has troops on the ground in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Afghanistan is beginning to be eerily similar to the Vietnam involvement of forty years ago. Granted, there were a half million American boys in Vietnam in 1969, but the origins of ...
The United States and Laos pledged Tuesday to step up cooperation after their highest-level talks since the Vietnam War, the latest country in a renewed US effort to engage Southeast Asia.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, who ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Richard Blumenthal, the early favorite to win retiring fellow Democrat Christopher Dodd's Senate seat from Connecticut, never served in the military in Vietnam despite his public comments indicating he had done so, the New York Times reported on Monday.If ...
The article reviews the books " The Vietnam War, 1954-1965," by Mark Moyar and "A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam," by Lewis Sorley. Excerpt from Article:
Irish-born American lawyer, liberal Democratic politician, and champion of the underdog who devoted his career to such causes as civil rights, the creation of Israel, an end to the Vietnam War, and a united and free Ireland (b.