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Episode 37: History Repeats Itself: From Vietnam to Afghanistan, Trump to Carlson…? Related commentaries: al-Qaeda obits…snatching defeat… failure in Afghanistan is likely… Obama saluting… Pentagon report… WikiLeaks… how many more must die… aping “stupid” Obama… Listen.
The New York Times has spent the past week marking the 50th anniversary of its publication of the Pentagon Papers. Those documents exposed the lies the US government repeatedly told the American people about the Vietnam War. Here is an excerpt from a commemorative report on June 9: __________ Daniel Ellsberg, an analyst on the… Read more.
I wholly agreed with candidate Barack Obama when he argued during the 2008 presidential campaign that Afghanistan was “the good war.” For me, however, this only meant the US had a just cause (namely, avenging 9/11) to launch it – juxtaposed to Iraq (the bad war) for which it had no just cause. After all,… Read more.
