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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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Brigham, R. K. (2008). Iraq, Vietnam, And Limits of American Power. New York: Perseus Books Group.
Brigham, R. K. (n.d.). Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American Power. |
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"The main problem in Iraq....was that it was relatively easy for the president to speak to ideals and not interests when laying out his war plan to Congress and the American People"
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"American impulse to strike out against potential adversaries led the United States to war in Iraq..."
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"...Fear and the appeal tp ideals all but completely quashed debate"
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"In Iraq...the United States went to war under the cloud insecurity"
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"It remains hard to justify a war of choice that has not spread democracy but left a region in choas and perhaps created a failed state"
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"Debate should be measured in days or weeks not hours. Indeed the senate debated making Martin Luther King birthday a national holiday two weeks longer than it debated...the resolution authorizing the Bush adminstration to invade Iraq"
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"When National security is not at stake it is always better to have a full and frank debate than to rush to war"
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"Extensive debate grounded in caution and insight could have uncovered important questions about the natures of wars and the efficacy of committing the nation to war overseas"
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"Pacification- the elimination of military and political elements through, coercion, enticements, and assassainations"
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Pacification "May be effective in eliminating insurgents but these tactics alone cannot win a war"
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"The Bush adminstration felt that pacification had worked in Vietnam and therefore should be applied to Iraq"
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However, "Pacification did eriadicate many political and military cadres inside the NLF infrastructure, but it did little to stop the advance of the People's Army of Vietnam"
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"Without a substantial political program, increasing the level of violence to kill insurgents is often counter productive and plaus into the psychological war plans of the enemy"
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"In an asymmetrical war of attrition, insurgents will always trade resources for time"
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"Time is the Enemy of the powerful and distant adversary"
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"At the heart of any nation building effort is redefining for the citizens what it means to belong to a nation"
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"Nations are not natural but "imagined communities" requiring a great deal of blind faith"
-Bennedict Anderson
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"The creation of nations is purely a cognititive undertaking"
-Bennedict Anderson
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"Common languages, customs, and history are often imagined or constructed by civilians to purposefully strengthen bonds of survival"
-Benndict Anderson
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"suggested that most tradtionas that unite disparate people into a nation are invented"
-Eric Hobsbawm |
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"The Nation is a large scale solidarity constituted by the feeling of the sacrafices that one has made int he past and those that one is prepared to make in the future"
-Erest Renan
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"We have lived with Vietnam Syndrome. This is a lesson for all of us in Vietnam. If we are forced to fight, we must have the means and detirmination to prevail or we will not have what it takes to secure peace."
Roland Regan, August 1980
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Iraq, Vietnam, And the Limits of American Power
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"And while were at it let us tell those who fought in that war that we will never agian ask young men to fight and possibly die in a war our government is afraid to let them win."
-Ronald Reagan, August 1980
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