Re: [Marxism] Bush Invokes Vietnam

[" Erik Carlos Toren" <ectoren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul:

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Flewers" <rfls12802@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>I think that Bush's invocation of Vietnam in his recent speech on Iraq has
> considerable significance. Hopefully US list members can confirm this one
> way or the other, but I can't recall any US president implying that the US
> withdrawal from Vietnam was too early and was at the root of many of the
> succeeding troubles in South-East Asia.

I don't remember all the speeches from the Republican presidents 
post-Vietnam, but I do believe that stance has always been the stock and 
trade of the Republican Party or the "Center-Right" in the US. I think what 
"mainstream" America finds galling is what Jon Stewart funnily pointed out 
in one of his shows. He contrasted a video clip of a Bush speech (IIRC 2004) 
in which he pointedly stated that Iraq was in **no** way like Vietnam with a 
quick cut of the video clip Bush invocating Vietnam and justifying the 
prolongation of the war.

Erik Toren 


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