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January 1, 2008
| Authors: | Steven Simon, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies Jonathan Stevenson |
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Article
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson write that "the history of the Vietnam War teaches that to preserve American strength and prestige, we must begin withdrawing from Iraq now."
See more in Iraq, Wars and Warfare, Foreign Policy History
August 24, 2007
| Author: | Max Boot, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies |
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Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
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July 22, 2007
| Author: | Max Boot, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies |
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Op-Ed
Los Angeles Times
See more in Iraq, Foreign Policy History
January 22, 2007
| Author: | Zia Mian |
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Must Read
This report from Foreign Policy in Focus draws numerous parallels between the US policies and experiences in Iraq and Vietnam.
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January 22, 2007
| Author: | Gideon Rose, Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs |
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Op-Ed
Slate
See more in Iraq, Congress, Foreign Policy History, Grand Strategy
January 3, 2007
Robert Dallek interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Robert Dallek, a prominent historian on the American presidency, says that historians will remember President Gerald R. Ford as “a distinctly minor figure,” in part because he was in office for such a short period and “one cannot point to any great initiatives that changed the course of history, in my judgment, in that time.”
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October 30, 2006
| Author: | Carin Zissis |
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Backgrounder
Vietnam’s economy is booming as the World Trade Organization prepares to welcome the communist country as a full member after eleven years of accession negotiations.
See more in Economic Development
October 30, 2006
Daily Analysis
An economically thriving Vietnam is on the verge of becoming a World Trade Organization (WTO) member, but a holdup in U.S. Congress threatens to stall Hanoi’s accession bid.
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October 23, 2006
Don Oberdorfer, chairman of the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Don Oberdorfer, an expert on Asian affairs who wrote a major book on the Tet offensive, Tet!, says even though support for the Iraq war is ebbing in the United States, the current mood lacks “the domestic passion” the Tet Offensive produced against the Vietnam War in 1968.
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August 2006
| Author: | Christopher Hitchens |
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Must Read
A National Magazine Award nominee for excellence in Columns and Commentary, this article explains how Agent Orange has poisoned now a third generation.
See more in Wars and Warfare, Health
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