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Of course, energy features largely in the Brzezinski equation, as a more careful examination of the book would reveal (well beyond the scope of this essay. This policy has lead directly to the present recession (no one wants to use the "d" word depression any more). Much as America's economy was the proverbial basket case after the multiple conflicts of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, this present experience with multiple Asian wars has contributed to the coming bankruptcy of America and the death of our much daunted American dream. The money spent in Afghanistan (as well as Iraq) is desperately needed at home in America to rebuild a civilian infrastructure badly in need of revamping.
The war is spreading in involvement as oil rich and relatively prosperous Kazakhstan is sending troops. Kazakhstan and Russia are nervous over the war as it is spilling over the Afghan borders into Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Many disparate radical Islamic groups across the region aim to create a Muslim caliphate in the area (Ferris-Rotman). The continued U.S. And NATO presence is like pouring gasoline on the fire and only spreads...
As the Afghan War goes on.
Dwight D. Eisenhower's in his last address as President warned that "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence...by the military industrial complex." If there was a danger at the beginning of the 1960s preceding the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, certainly we need to be even more vigilant now than ever as American rights and prosperity are eroded in the cause of their supposed rescue.
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Brzezinski, Zbigniew. The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geo-strategic
Imperatives. New Yourk, NY: Basic Books, 1997. 208. Print.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. "Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower,
1961 ." H-net. Web. 22 May 2011.
Lessons Learned by American Experience of the Vietnam War: Diplomatic Negotiations, Presidential Leadership, and Cultural/Social Context The objective of this study is to examine the lessons learned by the American Experience of the Vietnam War in terms of diplomatic negotiations, presidential leadership, and the cultural and social context of the war. The work of Mariney (1989) writes that the U.S. civilian and military leadership failed "to heed the lessons of the
Lessons Learned From the Vietnam War Diplomatic Relations In terms of the diplomatic relations that the Johnson and Nixon Administrations had with representatives from North Vietnam and from South Vietnam, the two most appropriate words to describe those relations are failure and futility. But the failed pattern of diplomacy vis-a-vis Vietnam and Southeast Asia really began in 1954, when then Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was sent by President Eisenhower to
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