Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Deja vu all over again
Bush in Philadelphia: "They can't beat us militarily. The only way we can lose is if we lose our nerve." Doesn't this sound eerily reminiscent of US leaders during the Vietnam War? In fact, looking at some of the US rhetorical strategies from that War, from "light at the end of the tunnel" to "winning the hearts and minds" to "Vietnamization", one can see lots of uncanny similarities.
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