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Sunday, July 12, 2009

The Strange Fog Rolls Back In


Robert McNamara's recent death has me wondering about the comparisons between Vietnam and Afghanistan. (Check out the fierce response to McNamara's death by Joseph Galloway, the co-author of the fine We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young at the above link). Barack Obama as senator and candidate had no real qualms about Afghanistan, and has in fact substantially increased troop numbers and adopted a more aggressive policy. Is Obama the Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush's JFK? At what point will this war become Obama's, and how long will we put up with this particular quagmire?

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