vietnam

CNN has just released a poll that found 52 percent of Americans, according to a new CNN poll, say Afghanistan has turned into “a situation like the U.S. faced in the Vietnam War.” More than two-thirds of respondents said Afghanistan probably won’t have a stable government within the next few years. Also:
According to the poll, [...]

Documents reveal the CIA was allowed to deny detainees sleep upward of 80 to 180 hours at a time.

A new CNN poll has found, for what I think is the first time, a majority of Americans opposed to the war in Afghanistan. Pentagon officials and Afghanistan-watchers have thought for months that this moment was inevitable: public support for Afghanistan, those people thought, was broad mostly because of media neglect. Now, with Marines dying [...]

RIP, Robert McNamara. Nothing you ever did after Vietnam zeroed the balance. So when will Errol Morris make his Rumsfeld documentary?