Sunday, October 18, 2009

Afghanistan Was Russia's Vietnam And Now It Will Be Obama's


Thursday I reached for Rick Perlstein's wondrous Nixonland to help make a point about how similar the tragically hubristic war in Afghanistan is to the tragically hubristic war in Vietnam. But after I found what I was looking for in the book, and quoted copiously in the post, I kept reading and found something else I want to share. Perlstein really is one of the best contemporary historians writing about American politics and if you stick with DWT long enough you'll probably wind upSource: DownWithTyranny! RSS Feed

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