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COULD AFGHANISTAN BECOME OBAMAS VIETNAM?

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com
Could Afghanistan Become Obama?s Vietnam?





Presidents Johnson and Eisenhower in 1968.




Helicopters in South Vietnam in 1971.




DANGER ZONE American soldiers, dropped by helicopter, patrol a volatile area about 9,000 feet up a mountain known as Sawtalo Sar in the Korengal Valley.


WASHINGTON ? President Obama had not even taken office before supporters were etching his likeness onto Mount Rushmore as another Abraham Lincoln or the second coming of Franklin D. Roosevelt.


Yet what if they got the wrong predecessor? What if Mr. Obama is fated to be another Lyndon B. Johnson instead?


To be sure, such historical analogies are overly simplistic and fatally flawed, if only because each presidency is distinct in its own way. But the L.B.J. model ? a president who aspired to reshape America at home while fighting a losing war abroad ? is one that haunts Mr. Obama?s White House as it seeks to salvage Afghanistan while enacting an expansive domestic program.


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What does single-payer mean?

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clippers remarks: I think this is an explanation of the issues that will appeal to conservatives and liberals alike.
Clip Source: healthspectator.com

It is one of history?s greatest ironies that had Richard Nixon not run afoul of the Watergate scandal, Americans might long ago have obtained universal health care. But thanks to Watergate, Nixon found himself on the path to impeachment and resigned his office. His ?sweeping new program? for ?comprehsive health insurance? lay dead on the table.


It is another of history?s ironies that Nixon?s successor, President Jimmy Carter, did not have the clout to push through a similar program. I recall sitting with a friend in a bar in New Jersey the same night that John Lennon was shot. A German was expounding on an issue I had never considered before. ?The thing you have to understand about American presidents,? he intoned in his Teutonic accent, ?is that they always do the opposite of what you expect them to do. It was Nixon who opened the door to China, and Kennedy and Johnson who got us into the Vietnam war.?


Should we deny any veteran

the very best health care?


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Download Taxi Driver Full movie

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clippers remarks: Download Taxi Driver Full movie
Clip Source: sites.google.com



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Starring: Robert DeNiro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle, Diahnne Abbott, Victor Argo, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Peter Savage, Ralph S. Singleton, Charles Scorsese


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