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A Year After US Troops Withdraw From Iraq, Fog of War Thickens
New America Media, Essay, Andrew Lam , Dec 11, 2012
Robert McNamara, former secretary of defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and chief architect of the Vietnam War, once recalled his experience with Vietnam as a kind of fog. "What the fog of war means," he said, "is that war is so complex it's beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend all the variables. Our judgment, our understanding are not adequate, and we kill people unnecessarily."
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Afghanistan Can't Wash Away Vietnam
New America Media, Video - Blog, Steven Chiem, May 30, 2011
Andrew Lam reads his essay, "Afghanistan Can't Wash Away Vietnam" from "New California Writing" - an anthology of writing about California and by Californian Writers.
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Former U.S. Soldier Told He Has No Country
New America Media, news report, Viji Sundaram, Mar 07, 2011
After spending nine years in the U.S. Army and being honorably discharged, Ramdeo Chankar Singh thought citizenship was in his grasp. Now, though, he faces deportation.
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Mideast Revolutions and 9-11 Intrigues Created in Qatar
New America Media, News Analysis, Yoichi Shimatsu, Mar 02, 2011
In the 2005 political thriller "Syriana", starring George Clooney and Matt Damon, Qatar is at the heart of an international intrigue. The title was based on the concept of "Pax Syriana", a secret arrangement between two mutually hostile powers to divide a region into their respective spheres of dominance.
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U.S. Military Base Under Taliban Control
Al Jazeera English,  , Apr 21, 2010
Known to U.S. soldiers as the Valley of Death, it's been the scene of the some of the most intense fighting in the war in Afghanistan. After years of intense fighting, the United States has left its remote outpost in the Korengal Valley, in the country's east.
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Seven Years Later, Family of Man Killed in Iraq Soldiers On
New America Media, News Report, Aaron Glantz, Mar 27, 2010
It’s been seven years since, just one week into the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Lance Corporal Jesus Suarez del Solar stepped on a piece of unexploded ordnance and came home in a flag-draped coffin.
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'Terror TV Bill’ Raises Questions about Freedom of Press
New America Media, News Analysis, Jalal Ghazi, Mar 04, 2010
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed Bill 2278 two months ago, which according to its author Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., “would label certain Middle Eastern satellite providers of incendiary television programming as terrorist organizations, in an effort to prevent radical anti-American propaganda from hitting the airwaves.”
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