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Myesha Johnson

What we don’t say about the Gold Stars

October 24, 2017 Arthur Lieber Foreign Policy, Government, Military, War Leave a comment

If we needed to be re-awakened, the PBS Series “The Vietnam War” reminded us that men and women who served in Vietnam were certainly

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We ended the military draft. Maybe we need it again. Or something like it.

May 31, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Military, War 6 comments

Robert Redford’s latest movie, “The Company You Keep,” didn’t make me stand up and cheer, but it did make me think. The movie tells

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Viet-ghanistan?

May 23, 2012 Arthur Lieber Foreign Policy, History, Obama, War Leave a comment

It may be too strong an adage to say the definition of insanity is to continue to do the same things with the expectation

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