Pundits and lawmakers keep making the Iraq/Vietnam comparison. But India in the wake of British colonial rule is a relevant and perhaps a more cautionary tale that should be heeded.
Nicolaus Mills
Nicolaus Mills is a professor of American studies at Sarah Lawrence College and the author of the forthcoming Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan and America's Coming of Age as a Superpower.
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What FDR and Elizabeth Edwards Have in Common
Roosevelt never used his wheelchair as a political gimmick, only as an inspiration to others. The same goes for Edwards and her breast cancer.
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A Globalism for our Time
Sixty years ago, George Marshall unveiled his plan for rebuilding Europe and redefining America’s role in the world. It was on-target then, and his vision for America’s role is even more on-target today.
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The Enemy of Comfort
A week after the presidential elections, Iris Chang, the much-acclaimed author of The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, was found dead in her car on a highway just south of Los Gatos, California. Before shooting herself, Chang left a carefully written suicide note at her home in San Jose and […]
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The E-Word
One of the most revealing passages in the late Paul Wellstone’s political memoir, The Conscience of a Liberal, is his criticism of the decision that he made during his first year in the Senate to hold a press conference on his opposition to the Gulf War within sight of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. “I wanted […]
