It's certainly a debate, raging or not, about what to do about Afghanistan. Stay the course, whatever that might be, or ramp things up? Obama is said to be debating what to do about US forces in the war-torn country.
Vanity Fair reports on a debate raging in the media about whether the Vietnam war should be compared to what is happening in Afghanistan:
"Is Afghanistan the new Vietnam? President Obama says no, but a rising chorus of critics seems to think otherwise. An entire page of yesterday’s op-ed section in the New York Times was dedicated to plucking policy and counterinsurgency lessons from America’s bloody years in Southeast Asia, and even Gordon M. Goldstein’s book about failed policy in Vietnam, Lessons in Disaster, is being passed around the White House these days. As popular support has sagged, nearly every media outlet has run a version of the Is-Afghanistan-Obama’s-Vietnam? story."
Vanity Fair reports on a debate raging in the media about whether the Vietnam war should be compared to what is happening in Afghanistan:
"Is Afghanistan the new Vietnam? President Obama says no, but a rising chorus of critics seems to think otherwise. An entire page of yesterday’s op-ed section in the New York Times was dedicated to plucking policy and counterinsurgency lessons from America’s bloody years in Southeast Asia, and even Gordon M. Goldstein’s book about failed policy in Vietnam, Lessons in Disaster, is being passed around the White House these days. As popular support has sagged, nearly every media outlet has run a version of the Is-Afghanistan-Obama’s-Vietnam? story."
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