The World Motivation
The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the 'New York Times' or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.
“The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the 'New York Times' or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.”
The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the 'New York Times' or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.
My personal experience in Ninawa Province has been that, at the most fundamental level, people don't really care if it's a Shiite, a Sunni, a Kurd, or a Turkoman that's providing them security as long as that force treats them with respect.
The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.
People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.
I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.
A high school diploma will no longer be sufficient. But that post secondary education does not have to be a four-year university or a four-year college. It can be career technical education, vocational education, community college.
I'm a regular college student.
I was a college student in 1989 when I participated in the demonstration at Tiananmen Square. I was one of the organizers.
Going to college was really affirming for me, meeting other people like me, other mixed people who had mixed life experience. And that's when I really understood that, no matter what my upbringing was, I'm black and people are going to treat me like I'm black. So that is what that is.