Summary
COLUMBUS -- As President Barack Obama addressed the nation last week on his plans to send 30,000 additional American troops to Afghanistan, hawks and doves from a previous American war seemed to flutter down from history's rafters across the political landscape in Ohio and the country.
The president, speaking to cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and to millions of Americans watching on television, tried to assure his audience that Afghanistan is "not another Vietnam," the war that cost more than 58,000 American lives and divided the country like no conflict since the Civil War.See the full content of this document
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Obama's Troop Surge Awakens Hawks and Doves
"Doves" opposed American involvement in Vietnam; "hawks" supported it.
Technically, the president is right.- Vietnam was jungles and Buddhists. ...See the full content of this document
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