It’s not the first time he’s said it, but former UN Ambassador and current Hillary Clinton campaign advisor Richard Holbrooke laid out his views on Iraq in the starkest terms in an interview published today in the Brown Daily Herald:
As soon as I read the headline of this CNN.com article, I was baffled: “Bush to invoke Vietnam in arguing against Iraq pullout.” Later today, Bush is making a speech in Kansas City that is essentially a pitch to the American people to continue supporting the Iraq war. CNN’s report on what he’s going to say only confused me further: Read More »
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech at the Riverside Church in New York City.
Entangled by complex and dangerous times, attentive clergy and concerned citizens alike listened as Dr. King called upon Americans to save the soul of their country.
The United States of America in 1967 was characterized by heated racial tensions simmering to a boil- scalding black and white Americans in red and blue states alike. The United States faced sweeping class disparities, observing concentrated prosperity and widespread poverty within the borders of the world's wealthiest nation. The futures of America's heroes were unnecessarily slaughtered in the endless death toll of young soldiers in Vietnam.
The struggle for civil rights, children growing up in poverty and American armed forces strained by an open-ended occupation of a foreign land- demons that haunted Martin Luther King and his fellow Americans in 1967; demons that haunt Americans and citizens of the world today.
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