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... the U.S. Army and prominent advocate of the surge in Iraq during the Bush administration, and retired Army Colonel Andrew Bacevich fought in the Vietnam War. He's now a professor of international relations at Boston University. His latest book is "The Limits of Power: The End of American ...
... humbling. Your forgiveness is healing. You are my hero.Forgiveness is not just a personal issue: it's why John led the effort to normalize relations with Vietnam ... to retrieve the remains of our MIAs... to bring closure to both sides.That's leadership - national leadership. And it's leading ...
... fly like a conventional airplane. General James Conway, commandant of the Marine Corps, made the decision to send Osprey to Iraq.GEN. JAMES CONWAY, Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps: It's not the next-generation aircraft. It is a technological leap. It is pushing the envelope of science to be ...
... for the first time since the Cold War, from China to Russia to Venezuela, there are competing ideologies and systems proclaiming themselves in opposition to U.S.-style democracy.Freedom House, a nonpartisan group that tracks the progress of democracy around the globe, described the current situation as "stagnation." It ...
... ironic. ROBERT DALLEK: It's quite ironic, because, after all, Nixon and Kissinger were so secretive about what they were doing, the opening to China, relations with the Soviet Union, back-channel discussions, X-ing the State Department out of things, the shuttle diplomacy to the Middle East, the Vietnam ...
... would be right, that they would measure with accuracy the value of our lives against the enormity of the national interest that might call upon us to go into harm's way. We owed them our loyalty, as Americans, and we gave it. But they owed us - sound judgment, clear ...
... not as unusual, but for ground units like this, it's extremely unusual, because they come up only in the most extreme circumstances.During the Vietnam War, for example, you had stand-downs to stress racial relations, to stress things like drug prevention programs. But there hasn't been a ...
... then I will ask Carol Phillips: why are they right and why are they wrong? NANCY LESSIN: Well, we said it was wrong for the U.S. to be invading Iraq; it's wrong for the U.S. to be occupying Iraq. There's no right way to do a ...
... which is less than 1 percent. So the potential for this being a really serious problem is there, and nothing that's happening is telling us that it's going in the other direction. It keeps going in the direction that is making us quite anxious. It's increasing its ...
... means you sit with Putin, as the president already has, and said your treatment of your people is outrageous and we can't have successful relations unless you change. Does it mean you go to war with Putin? Does it mean you break off all relations? No, that's not ...
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