Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsTo President Obama for actionclipped by: Yassin_Mclippers remarks: To President Obama for action Kerry Compares Situation in Afghanistan to Vietnam During the senate confirmation hearing nominating Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, John Kerry expressed concerns about the plans to escalate the US troop presence in Afghanistan, comparing the situation to Vietnam [Video] And FBI Director, Edgar Hoover, had him shot dead !clipped by: benaloyyou hear in the Oval Office conversations of Johnson with other people, particularly his old buddy Richard Russell, is, "I would give everything not to do this war. Were going to lose. Were on the wrong side. Its politically stupid. Well never convince these Vietnamese to support us. It wont work militarily. It wont work politically. But if I dont do it, theyll call me a coward and theyll run me out of office. The American people will forgive you for anything but being weak." King never in any of his Vietnam speeches used the name Lyndon Johnson, never once. And everybody else was saying, you know, "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" We were demonizing Johnson. So King said, "Everything that Johnsons doing is connected to our own human nature, and we cannot demonize even his commitment to democracy Curses of Mankind:racism, poverty and warclipped by: benaloythe triple scourges of mankind racism, poverty and war, the ten-year movement against segregation in the United States King struggled with it he wanted to speak out against the Vietnam War. he couldnt segregate the principles of nonviolence as a tool for change and a way of understanding Americas role in the world. We still havent absorbed the lessons of the 1960s, the blessings of nonviolence and the curse of violence Anti-Defamation League Calls Bill Moyers Racist for Criticizing Gaza Warclipped by: reimersYou have to read this exchange between Bill Moyers and Abe Foxman. It leaves even me (almost) speechless. Foxman says that by criticizing the war, Moyers demonstrates "moral equivalency, racism, historical revisionism, and indifference to terrorism...." Bill Moyers, a southern Baptist from Texas, a preacher no less, is the then 20-something who came to Washington with Lyndon Johnson and worked with him to enact the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, and a host of other progressive legislation that transformed America and, additionally, made the election of Barack Obama possible . Moyers, who resigned as LBJs aide in 1967, largely because he could not stomach the Vietnam war, is about as free of any kind of prejudice as any person Ive ever met and his life story proves it. The big difference between Bill and some of his critics is that he moved beyond his parochial past and embraced the cause of humanity Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
2009/01/19
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