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	<title>SHAFR.org &#187; Vietnam</title>
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		<title>1980 Election and American Foreign Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/29/1980-election-and-american-foreign-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Busch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The election of 1980 took place in an atmosphere of considerable concern by Americans that the position of the United States in the world had dangerously slipped. Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, at least ten countries had tumbled into the Soviet orbit. When Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, it was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking about Remembering</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/22/thinking-about-remembering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Molly Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=2195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and even though I have not lived there for many years, I still visit regularly. I often think that my decision to become a historian stems in part from the stories of my family history told to me by grandparents and other relatives. I learned from my grandmother, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Obama Might Learn from the Past: Bending History in the Direction of Justice</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/what-obama-might-learn-from-the-past-bending-history-in-the-direction-of-justice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/what-obama-might-learn-from-the-past-bending-history-in-the-direction-of-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is the nature of the political process that presidents campaign outside history and must then live within it. For Barack Obama, this meant promising a speedy withdrawal from Iraq, a stronger focus on defeating Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, firm but respectful relations with Russia and China, engagement with opponents like Iran, and progress with our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons for Late Baby Boomers</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/lessons-for-late-baby-boomers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/lessons-for-late-baby-boomers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Zeiler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marshall Plan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m eight months older than President Barack Obama, so we fall into the same generation.  Of course, the similarities end there, including his ascent to a slightly higher administrative level than I will ever reach.  Still, we share some things in common because we gained an awareness of the world around the same time, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 10/19/09</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/10/19/weekly-digest-101909/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/10/19/weekly-digest-101909/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Early Cold War:  1945-1961]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam syndrome]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=1714</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the U.S. postpones a decision on Afghanistan, Gerald Posner reports on a new secret weapon in the arsenal of the Taliban and Al Qaeda: getting the Army addicted to their cheap heroin. [more]
President George H.W. Bush thought that after the victory in the Gulf war we had &#8220;kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8212; 2/5/09</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/02/05/weekly-digest-020509/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/02/05/weekly-digest-020509/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Regan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=1003</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Historical thinking about current foreign relations:
China's Military Modernization.  Vietnam War Crimes.  U.S. Communications Embargo on Cuba.  America's position within the International Monetary Fund.  Will existing international financial agreements prevail?]]></description>
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		<title>A Prophecy of Class Warfare</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/19/a-prophecy-of-class-warfare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/19/a-prophecy-of-class-warfare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>george white, jr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush administration:  2001-2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Economic Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace and dissent]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rumsfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War on Terror]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=924</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At this time of year, I usually find myself in an emotional and mental torment.  I love Martin Luther King, Jr.  I don&#8217;t love what we have done to him.  He has a secure place in my pantheon of heroes, next to folks like Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Bayard Rustin, Malcolm X, Patricia Hill Collins, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Soon to a Theater Near You</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/13/coming-soon-to-a-theater-near-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/13/coming-soon-to-a-theater-near-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Osgood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Op-Eds]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam:  1945-1961]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lone Survivor]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=819</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Why don&#8217;t we hear about the war anymore,&#8221; asked one of my students on the first day of my class on U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle  East.  When I answered with a question &#8211; &#8220;Which one?&#8221; &#8211; he looked bemused.  He obviously meant the war in Iraq.  The other war &#8211; the one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq, Afghanistan, and American Credibility:  Historical Parallels, Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/08/iraq-afghanistan-and-american-credibility-historical-parallels-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/08/iraq-afghanistan-and-american-credibility-historical-parallels-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Stueck</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gerald Ford administration:  1974-1977]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter administration:  1977-1981]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I signed off last week with the promise of more to come on the risk to American credibility worldwide of a U.S. failure, or even,  as Secretary of Defense Gates suggested, a perceived failure, in either Afghanistan or Iraq.  Gates has declared that either one would be &#8220;disastrous.&#8221;  I was in the process of examining the impact of the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq, Afghanistan, and American Credibility: Historical Parallels, Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/02/iraq-afghanistan-and-american-credibility-historical-parallels-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/02/iraq-afghanistan-and-american-credibility-historical-parallels-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Stueck</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Truman administration:  1945-1953]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, Robert M. Gates, the current and future U.S. secretary of defense, asserts that &#8220;to fail-or to be seen to fail-in either Iraq or Afghanistan would be a disastrous blow to U.S. credibility, both among friends and allies and among potential adversaries.&#8221; To historians of American foreign relations, the [...]]]></description>
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