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... no shortage of reminders this weekend about the brutality of what they call the American War. But there is today a marked ambivalence about the U.S. That's on clear display in the Noodle 2000 Restaurant, where Bill Clinton ate in 2000 when he became the first U.S ...
... twice as long as the Russians were in Afghanistan, for that matter we've been there about twice as long as our main operations in Vietnam. This is a long time, 2001, and 9/11 was over 16 years ago. HARI SREENIVASAN: Is there any strategy that the U.S ...
... that's a mixed bag. We can certainly think of examples in history like the famous picture of the girl burned by napalm by the U.S. military in Vietnam, that arguably changed public opinion and maybe moved policy ultimately. I think, on the other hand, many images go viral ...
... percent tariff on most imported vehicles — 25 percent on pickup trucks. That imbalance — or lack of reciprocity — favors the U.S. It’s true U.S. vehicle sales in Japan pale in comparison with Japanese sales in the U.S. Detroit has long complained about regulations that stop U.S ...
... be unsafe. Since 1967, such bans have been imposed intermittently on countries such as Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Cuba and North Vietnam. But the U.S. doesn't currently prohibit its passports from being used to travel to any countries, even though financial restrictions limit U.S. travel to ...
... in 1970 by then-President Richard Nixon, becoming the highest-ranking Black service member to receive the country’s greatest military honor. He was wounded three times while serving in Vietnam. Rogers joined the U.S. Army in 1951, six months before the racial desegregation of the U.S. military.
... us that we preserve the integrity of that process and of that channel.” Since the Dissent Channel was created in 1971, in part to address U.S. diplomats’ concerns over the Vietnam War, the State Department has held communications closely. Nearly all such cables are classified to protect the integrity ...
... Above all, retired Lieutenant Colonel John Sloan (ph) aspired to a career in service, his brother said. It was why the former munitions officer and Vietnam veteran joined the U.S. Air Force, and stayed for more than two decades. It was also why John, when he retired from the ...
... II, Army Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair died when an errant Allied bomb struck his position as the Allies struggled to break out from Normandy. In Vietnam, helicopter gunships killed U.S. troops on Hamburger Hill. Today, the basic challenge remains the same: distinguishing between friend and foe. Better training and ...
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